By BEN EFE
Nigeria juniors, who distinguished themselves at the African Youth Athletics Championships happening here in Warri, will be selected by Athletics Federation of Nigeria to represent Nigeria at the ECOWAS Games in Burkina Faso later in the year.

This, according to AFN vice president Jide Josiah, is part of the programme to groom selected junior athletes to world standards ahead of the 2016 Olympics Games in Rio, Brazil.

“When we accepted to host the AYAC, our intention was to see the juniors that we have. We are going to have an extended programme for the athletes who distinguished themselves since they will represent Nigeria at the ECOSWAS Games.“By 2016 these athletes will be 20 and that is the age in which we have most Olympic champions,” said the AFN official.

“Our agenda is to groom these athletes for the future. Good that the University of Port Harcourt has agreed to grant the athletes admission so that they can be studying and at the same time training at the Port Harcourt High Performance Centre.