The 2024 African Games is slated for Ghana in March, while the 2024 Olympics will be held in Paris in June.
Team Nigeria has so far clinched two medals in the women’s wheelchair tennis, singles and doubles categories.
“The boxing qualifiers will be tough,” Akinyele said in a telephone chat from Dakar. “There are many countries here competing.”
The championship will enable Nigeria to participate in the 2024 Paralympics in France.
The ex-Olympic medal winning sprinter urged Tobi Amusan to put behind her the suspension saga by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU).
134 players drawn from 29 countries in Africa, Asia, Europe, Oceania, and North America are participating in the Championship.
The quartet achieved this feat in record breaking fashion, running 42.10 seconds to break the barely one month old 42.22 seconds African record they set in Oregon.
Team Nigeria are expected to win more medals in weightlifting and athletics events before the end of the day.
It was not a great outing for Nigeria in the men’s and women’s 100m track events at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham on Wednesday.
Nnamdi won a bronze medal at the 2016 Paralympics in Rio De Janeiro, and Oborududu a silver medal at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.
