Commonwealth Handball – Players Undergo MRI Test

The president of Handball Federation of Nigeria Alhaji Yusuf Dauda has confirmed that the country’s teams that will participate in the forthcoming Commonwealth Intercontinental Under-17 Boys & Girls championship in Cameroon and Africa Zone III Handball challenge in Cote d’Ivoire will undergo Magnetic Resonance Imaging tests, which is popularly known as MRI, to ascertain their true age before the main championship.

Confirming this over the weekend, the federation president said this would be done in order to correct the anomalies of age cheating, which has in recent time been the bane of sports development in the country. He added that handball is poised to set the pace in order to save the future of the players and the game in the country.
He further said that his federation has written to the sports ministry for the use of its facilities for the test, stating that anytime this week, the medical examinations would commence.
“Deciding on this course of action will definitely save the country any form of embarrassment that would follow a discovery of age discrepancy on the part of any member of the teams that we had sent out.

“We are existing in a fast-changing world and the only way for us to join the trend is to make sure that we do what is right and subsequently select the best players we are capable of, honestly, to represent the country in international competitions. This kind of right exposure will not only place them a step ahead of their peers but also encourage the upcoming ones to follow the line of honour through hard work and sincerity”