Forsaken Champions: Nigeria’s Para Athletes battle penury (Part 1)
05 September 2017 |
5:40 am
Most of the laurels Nigeria have won at global sports events have come from Para Sports but the physically-challenged men and women who have achieved these feats only have tales of pain and woes to share about how the nation has treated them.
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2 Comments
This is so sad
This is very sad. These are Olympic medal winners. They deserve much more better than this
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