By Johnny Edward, Punch Newspaper Nigeria’s second-ranked table tennis star, Edem Offiong, is delighted after she entered the history books as the first Nigerian to win the European Cup Women’s Table Tennis title. It was also the first European title for ASD Quattro Mori Cagliari club. Offiong, currently ranked 142nd in the world, helped her
By Jonathan Ugbal Follow @NaijaJonathan Cross River born table tennis champion and Africa’s fourth seed, Offiong Edem on Friday progressed to the Women Singles semifinals of the 2018 ITTF Africa Top 16 Cup holding in Nairobi, Kenya. Offiong scaled through despite upsets on the opening day when she lost to unseeded Algerian, Lynda Logrhaibi who
By Jonathan Ugbal The maiden Governor Ben Ayade Under 15 football tournament has kicked off in Cross River State with a total of 254 secondary schools in participation across the 18 local government areas of the state. The tournament is aimed at fostering peace and keeping the youths engaged positively as well as a means
By Jonathan Ugbal Hopes for a female medal in the table tennis singles event at the ongoing Olympics in Rio, Brazil have been dashed as Cross River born Offiong Edem crashed out, losing 1-4 to Belarus’s Viktoria Pavlovich. Offiong who won her first game beating Fiji’s Yee Sally 4-0 began on a good note, winning the first set 11-5
By CrossRiverWatch admin Nigeria’s Offiong Edem yesterday qualified for the next round of the Table Tennis event after she beat Yee Sally from Fiji 4-0 in the women’s singles preliminary round at the on-going Rio 2016 Olympic Games in Brazil. The 2011 African Games women singles champion, defeated Sally in four straight sets 11-3, 11-8,
by crossriverwatch admin It was a very bad outing for the Nigerian female table tennis team at the ongoing Glasgow, Scotland Commonwealth games as all of them crashed out without reaching the knockout stages. Even the reigning national and continental champion, Cross River born Edem Offiong who promised to win gold, was knocked out in
Culled From PUNCH She has ruled the Nigerian table tennis women’s singles for 14 years and has been an African champion for six years. Offiong Edem has an astonishing five All Africa Games gold and a silver under her belt, and has reached the quarterfinals of the Commonwealth Games on three occasions. But Edem wants