 Latifah Tijani has won Nigeria's first gold medal at the ongoing Tokyo Paralympic Games. She won the gold on Thursday in women's 45kg powerlifting. Tijani defeated China's ZQ to lift 107kg. Latifah Tijani was a gold medalist at the Brazzaville 2015 Africa Games and silver medalist at the Rio 2016 Paralympics. She will also be in the women's 45kg straight gold medal contest same day. Nakibu Yakubu at Deshokam missed out on the podium placement in the men's 49kg powerlifting. He finished fourth with his best lift of 155kg.