History of Fencing in Nigeria
Nigeria is gradually diversifying its sporting activities as new and uncommon sports are being established and promoted, such kind of sports includes fencing. It is believed that fencing sports came from Spain because some books were found to have information about fencing and were written by a fencer from Spain.
The sport was first initiated in the Summer Olympics Games in the year 1896 in Athens but was initiated in Nigeria by the sports federation in 1997 with Adeyinka Samuel as the president and which is headquartered in Lagos Nigeria.
It is affiliated to the National Olympic committee for Nigeria known as Nigeria Olympic Committee which supports and coordinates Nigerian competitors in Olympic Games.
Nigerian fencing federation in 2015 officially selected an 11-man squad who represented the country at the All-African Games held from 4th to 9th of September 2015 held in Brazzaville, the capital of the Republic of the Congo.
They also conducted an annual inter-school fencing competition such as the one of 2016 that was held from 3rd to 10th of December 2016 at French School Victoria Island Lagos.
The event marked the 2nd Interschool Fencing Competition hosted by the Nigeria Fencing Federation in collaboration with RCCG City of David (David's Cup Annual Inter School Competition) which presented a lot of medals, trophies and other prizes.
Recently in March 2018, president of the federation organized training for the estimated number of 10,000 fencers during the Cadet and Junior African Fencing Championship held at Molade Okoya Thomas Hall, Teslim Balogun Stadium Surulere Lagos from 1st to 5th March.
The president stated on this note the purpose of training interested individual to be as a result of the low number of clubs and to bring up national athletes that will be representing the country; beginning the training from their respective schools.
