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Nigeria to open boxers camp in June for AAG

Xinhua, May 12, 2015 Adjust font size:

The Nigeria Boxing Federation (NBF) will in June call to camp boxers craving to represent the country at the 11th All African Games (AAG), Tony Konyekwachi, the national boxing coach, said on Monday.

The camp would be opened to all boxers nominated by state boxing associations based on their current form, Konyekwachi told reporters in Lagos, the nation's economic hub.

The AAG is scheduled to hold in Congo Brazzaville from Sept. 4 to Sept. 19.

The coach said only good boxers would be selected to represent the country at the AAG.

Konyekwachi advised boxers to study the current rules and regulations of the Amateur International Boxing Association (AIBA) to help them to scale through screening during the camping.

According to him, the new AIBA rules will be used to select the boxers that will represent the country at the games.

"It is very important to all the boxers coming into camp to embrace it," he added. Endite