Lagos State Boxing Coach, Babafemi, Retires.

Head Coach of the Lagos State Amateur Boxing Association, Obafemi Babafemi, has retired from the state civil service.

Babafemi, who joined the service in 1976 as a programme athletes, completed his mandatory thirty five years in the service of Lagos State Government.

The former national champion, told sportsweight.blogspot.com, that he was fulfilled to retire as the association's head coach because his outstanding records in the sports have been his source of happiness.

The retired boxing coach, who obtained grade 3 coaching certificate in 1980 at the Nigeria Institute for Sports, has appealed to the Lagos State Government to enagage the association's current head coach, Victor Enyika and his staffs on regular refresher courses to maintain the association status.

Babafemi, whose performance in the state earned him an invitationto the national camp where he led the national team alongside the former national coach, Samson Aransiola, to Manchester Commonwealth Games in 2002, said he would be ready to return to the association as a contract staff if the state deem it necessary to extends sucn offer on him.

Babafemi,led the Lagos pugilists as an assistant coach to Joe Mensah, the association's head coach to Bendel 81 National Sports Festival.He continue working with Joe Mensah until the Togolese Nigerian boxer retired in 2000 after Bauchi 2000National Sports Festival.

As the Head coach of the association, Babafemi, led boxers to Abuja 2002 after which he was invited to the national camp.

He represented Nigeria at the World Boxing Championship in Yugoslavia in 1978 where he lost at the quarter final.He was part of the Lagos boxers who featured at the 1st International Boxing Championship in Germany in 1978.