By Ben Efe
UP and coming Nigerian long jumper, Ese Brume has been assured of support in her quest to improve on her performance at the Rio 2016 Olympics Games.

Ese Brume

Brume jumped 6.81m in the long jump to place fifth in the final. Her performance was rated the best by athletics enthusiast at the Games. However, the cool and calculated athlete has vowed to make the medals podium starting from the World Championships next year in London, and sports philanthropist, Mr. Frank Momoh has promised to support her training towards achieving that goal.

“I am very excited about this development. Certainly I am going to work hard at achieving podium performance. That is the only way I can pay back Mr. Momoh for his kind gesture. This is a man I have not met before in my entire life.”

I returned from Rio three days ago and he sent for me and my coach to see him in his office.

“Apart from giving us N100,000 cash each, he has told us to prepare a programme for my training for Tokyo 2020 Olympics and that he will help me in whatever way. I can’t believe we still have this type of people in this part of the world. I am really grateful and I pray God to help me actualize my dream of making it to the podium in Tokyo 2020,” Brume stated.

The Frot Group has also held a reception for Nigeria’s table tennis stars, Aruna Quadri, Segun Toriola, Funke Oshonaike and other members of the table tennis team to the Rio Olympics in a welcome dinner, which took place at Wheatbaker hotel, Ikoyi, Lagos.

At that occasion, Momoh doled out N1million to Aruna Quadri, N500,000 for Toriola, while and Funke Oshonaike and other members of the team got N1 million.