This is in memory of the feat he achieved when he became
the first black African to win a gold medal in Canada at the Commonwealth Games
in 1954.
The Late Emmanuel Ifeajuna, unarguably became the first
single individual Nigerian- African to write both Nigeria and Africa’s
name on the world history map in sports and became the first Nigerian and
black African to win Africa’s first gold medal in all time sport event.
Before he joined the Nigeria Army, Ifeajuna, then a Medical
Student at the University College Ibadan, earned for himself this honour.
