\u201cHe believed in sports and laid down his life. We want to thank the Kwara State Government for the support given to Bello when he was alive and after he lost his life. He made a very serious mark in the sports world; he is a legend and was on the verge of becoming the first Nigeria Para Badminton player to feature in the Olympic Games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI am appealing to Kwara State Government to find something spectacular to do in honouring Bello; someone who was produced so many champions in badminton and para badminton; gave his life for the service of the nation\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Nigeria Para Badminton Federation visited the family of Late Bello Oyebanji, Kwara State Sports Council and the Ministry of Youth and Sports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The National Coordinator of Nigeria Para Badminton Federation, Samuel Ekeoma has appealed to Kwara State to immortalize Late Bello Oyebanji who died during the course of representing the state and Nigeria. Ekeoma made the appeal when he led a group of Para Badminton stakeholders on a condolence visit to the family of Late Oyebanji and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5751,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,2],"tags":[310,2113,2114],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5749"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5749"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5752,"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5749\/revisions\/5752"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}