Nigerian Paralympic and power lifter Ndidi Nwosu has passed away. The para Olympics athlete represented Nigeria at the Commonwealth games in 2018 where she won a Gold medal.
She was also part of the Paralympic team of the Rio Olympics in 2016 where she represented Nigeria in power lifting and won a Gold medal. The news of Ndidi Nwosu’s death was made known to the public by Former President of the Nigeria Power lifting Federation, Queen Uboh who revealed that the athlete passed away from a lung infection.
“Ndidi Nwosu sustained an injury from the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Australia. She was a heavyweight powerlifter. I had actually assisted by paying for two of the surgeries she had in Owerri but after the surgery, she was never the same again. “She had been off and on in the hospital and that was why she couldn’t take part in this last World Cup.
“Even before she died, she appeared to me in the dream. She told me not to leave her family and that I was still her mummy despite not being the Powerlifting President anymore. So when the husband called me to inform me of her passing, I knew already because she had appeared to me in the dream. “I sent some money to Nwosu to start a petty business but she couldn’t manage it with her poor health.
“She had called me to say she couldn’t sustain the business because she couldn’t move about anymore and moreover, she was using the money to buy drugs. “She was a very quiet powerlifter and that’s why many people really didn’t know her. Ndidi became a professional powerlifter in 2008 and won gold in the Rio Paralympic Games in 2016 and also at the 2018 Commonwealth Games It was at the Commonwealth Games that she sustained an injury which affected her spine.”
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