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SO SAD! Train crushes Nigerian boxer, Okosun Godwin, to death
A National team middleweight boxer, Okosun Godwin, has been killed in a train accident on Wednesday in Lagos State.
According to reports, the boxer was on his way to Myoung Barracks in Yaba to train for his upcoming fight next week when the incident happened.
Godwin, who was with the Nigerian Army represented Nigeria at the men’s middleweight division at the 2017 Africa Boxing Championship in Brazzaville, Congo.
The news of his death was also confirmed on Facebook by some of his friends.
One Oluwatoyin Adejumola Mabogunje, shared some photos of the late boxer and wrote an emotional tribute to him.
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Mabogunje wrote;
“Today is a sad day for me to lost someone I love so much it so painful to me still don’t believe you are gone Godwin but you never for ones tell me you we live me so soon so painful I pray may your gentle soul rest in perfect peace amen!
“I still can’t believe that you are no more my dear,I can’t just stop the tears rolling down from my eyes you we forever be in my hearts.
“It just so painful to lost a wonderful person like you Okosun Godwin u pray may your gentle soul rest in prefect peace.”
He became the Army middleweight champion at the Army Games in Abuja in 2016 and won the silver medal at the National Boxing Open Championships held last year at the Brai Ayomnote Gym, National Stadium Lagos.
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Riliwan Lawal, his captain at the Army Games and teammate in Congo said:
“He was my close friend. Everybody liked him because he was always encouraging younger boxers and very humble and nice.”
See some photos:
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