Azeez Sholanke, reigning African Junior table tennis champion alongside a national teammate, Jamiu Ayanwale were in superb mode over the weekend at the Stay Home Stay Safe Table Tennis Championship, which the organisers used to sensitise the residents on the COVID-19 pandemic.
It will be noteworthy that the duo was scheduled to represent Nigeria at the African Junior Table Tennis Championship in Antananarivo, Madagascar but has been on hold since the COVID-19 crisis.
The championship, according to the organisers, was an enlightenment/exhibition competition to aid the campaign for people to stay at home as the world battles the coronavirus pandemic.
At the programme held at Bakare Jafojo Street in Abule Oki area of Iyana-Ipaja, 15 spectators were allowed to witness the contests in line with the social distancing rule with the event which was jointly facilitated by Bakare Jafojo residents chairman, Mr Olatubosun Banjo and Chief Olatunde Durosinmi, the Akinrogun of Abule-Oki, had health experts who took time to brief people in the neighbourhood on how the lockdown would work if adhered to in overcoming the spread and eventually getting rid of the coronavirus.
Others, who took part in the three-hour-long programme, were Operator Adeyinka, Timothy John, Lateef Adeniji, Abdullahi Ologunro, Seun Olaniyan and Ademola Olatunji.
