The Nigeria Table Tennis Federation may suspend Edem Offiong following her failure to show up for the first round match at the ongoing International Table Tennis Federation Africa Top 16 Cup on Friday.

Offiong, who is seeded number four in the tournament, was did not show up for her match in the preliminary round against Ghana’s Cynthia Kwabi, which resulted in a walk-over.

The NTTF has decided to query her on her action..

According to the NTTF, a similar thing happened at the last World Championship in Tokyo, Japan when the female team failed to report for the group game against Portugal, leading to a walk-over in favour of the Europeans and prevented the Nigerians from qualifying from the group at the tournament.

To progress to the knockout stage of the competition, Offiong has to win her next two matches against Onyinye Nwachukwu of Congo and South Africa’s Khanyisile Madlala.

Meanwhile, a major upset was recorded in the men’s qualifiers, as number four seed, Congo’s Saheed Idowu, was beaten 3-2 by Tunisia’s Adem Hmam.

The disappointed Nigeria-born Congolese star said he was not in good shape for the encounter having featured in the four-day Lagos World Tour which ended on Thursday.