Fijabi Banks On Commonwealth Games

Nigerian boxing champion, Olaide Fijabi, says his invitation for national camping ahead of the Commonwealth Games is the beginning of his journey to stardom.
"I will employ every admissible tactics in the sport to make the final list for the Commonwealth Games for it is only then I will be self-fulfilled," Fijabi, a 64kg national champion, told reporters in Lagos on Thursday.
"I believe I have paid my dues in boxing, it is now the turn of the nation to show me the route to limelight," said the pugilist who was champion at the National Sports Festivals at Kaduna in 2010, Port Harcourt in 2011 and Lagos in 2012.
Fijabi told reporters that the camp which is mainly for national gold medalists of all the 10 boxing categories will afford him the opportunity to step up his game.
"My target for the Games is to win gold medal which I know will aid me to further my professional ambition," the boxer added.
"If it is exposure, I think I have got that over the years; in 2013 under the Lagos State Boxing Association, I won a gold medal in an invitational tournament in London," he said.
Fijabi said he trained daily to help him to develop his skills ahead of the Games.
The national camp, which was earlier planned to begin on March 28, has been shifted to an undisclosed date.
Nigeria would feature in seven sports at the forthcoming Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland.
The Games will hold from July 23 to Aug. 3.
The sports are athletics, table tennis, wrestling, boxing, weightlifting, shooting and all the sports for the physically challenged (para-sports).
Nigeria was ninth at the last Games in New Delhi, India in 2010 with 11 gold, eight silver and 14 bronze medals.