Kid bags scholarship at CDF Boxing competition

By Akeem Lawal

Over 100 kid boxers took part in the 6th Child Dignity Foundation annual boxing event tagged 'Potential 2018 Boxing Carnival', held at the Brai Ayonote Boxing Gym, National Stadium, Lagos, last weekend.

Sponsored by Child Dignity Foundation, a brain child of Amaka Awogu, the one-day event is designed for children boxers in Nigeria to find vent for their talent and pursue their dreams in amateur and possibly to professional boxing.

A total of eleven bouts were fought in the male and female categories from 33kg to 57kg.

The participants were drawn from Junior and Senior Secondary schools in Lagos to enable closers monitoring. Some of the schools include; Frontview College, Ilogbo Elegba High School and Ilupeju High School among others.

It was explosive to the extent that Rex Mafiana, an InfoTech expert had to award scholarship to one of the potential stars, Fawaz Saheed of Nimotal High School, Ojo,Lagos.

An excited Mafiana said Fawaz who is an SS 1 student would be sponsored to any level of his choice beginning with an automatic change of School.

“I was at the last year’s edition of the event and Fawaz was one of the kids who partook in the boxing competition and his performance impressed me. So I felt that for a guy who can do that, the way he reasons, I believe that there is something in him that needs development.

“Today I relieved the joy I had last year when I see the happiness of those kids  and I think if all of us who can help somebody we will have a better society at large. It is just to give back and see the happiness on the kid’s face,” Mafiana said.