Samuel Ocheho, President of the Handball Federation of Nigeria (HFN) recently hailed by the Sports Minister, Sunday Dare for his immeasurable contributions to the body has revealed that the federation has plans and are working hard to leverage technology to project the game to a global audience and make it popular in the country.
Ochecho admitted that he wants to do more online streaming to propagate the game in the country, as well as employ Social Media to project it to a global audience. “We want the game to be popular in Nigeria and I am a step to achieving that.”
At the recently concluded handball closing ceremony of the 2020 Prudent Energy Handball league, it was revealed that the champions of the league will represent the country at the All African Handball Championships and the African winners Club Championships.
“The handball Federation will assist them with all necessary documents to ensure that they have a good outing as it is the club’s responsibility that they have a successful competition, the president declared.
Ochecho further revealed his happiness with the level of play and organization of the event reveling, “the league is one of the best leagues, even though it was done in a different way this year. We normally do first and second phases”, noting that the league had produced a lot of talented players.