Molade Okoya-Thomas, Bilikisu Bola Popoola Commends Toyin Okenla- Ojeaga.

A Nigerian sports philanthropist, Chief Molade Okoya- Thomas and the former Head coach of Nigeria's female table tennis team, Bilikisu Bola Popoola,, have showered praises on Toyin Okenla- Ojeaga for her genuine efforts towards improving the standard of table tennis in Nigeria.

The Asoju Oba of Lagos, Molade Okoya -Thomas, said he was pleased to see Nigeria's former table tennis ace female player who participated in the in the Asoju Oba table tennis championship in the seventies to sponsor similar competition in a bid to lift the standard of table tennis.

 Okoya- Thomas, who has been staging the Asoju Oba table tennis championship fo forty-four years, said the just concluded Toyin Okenla - Ojeaga under 17 table tennis competition has yielded positive fruits as the event would spur the secondary school pupils to train hard in a bid to attract invitation to state or national camp.

 To Bilikisu Bola Popoola,who is the first Nigerian female table tennis player to feature at te World Table Tennis Championship, in Munich, West Germany, in 1969, said she was impressed tat Toyin Okenla - Ojeaga couldconsider it necessary to sponsor a table tennis competition.

She explained that the feat demonstrated by Okenal- Ojeaga showed that she has special interest in the sport and that her determination to help develop the sport which brought her to the limelight encouraged her to delve into sponmosring the event.

 She advised the Nigeria Table Tennis Federation, NTTF, to encourage her efforts towards the development of the sport as she believed that her gesture would encourage others to emulate her.