As such, there is often tremendous cultural pressure for people with physical disabilities to remain hidden and out of the public eye.

[3] The team included athletics competitor Adeoye Ajibola, powerlifters Monday Emoghawve and Patrick Akutaekwe, table tennis players Aden Bamgbose, Nasiru Sule, Ibrahim Murtala and Segun Toriola.

[6] Ajibola posted a DNS in heat 1 of the Men's 100 m TS4 event, before going on to the final where he set a world record time of 10.72 seconds to finish first.

[10][11] In semi-final of heat 1 of the Men's 200 m TS4 event, he posted a world record time of 22.18 seconds in finishing first.

[12] Nigeria competed in powerlifting at the Barcelona Games, making their Paralympic debut in the sport.

[7] Nigeria was represented in table tennis by Nasiru Sule, Ibrahim Murtala, and Aden Bamgbose.

In Group C with Austria's Gerhard Scharf, Ireland's Ronan Rooney, American Gary Blanks and Venezuela's Humberto Linares, Bamgbose, posted 2 wins and 2 losses, winning 2 - 0 against the American and Venezuelan.

He was put into Group C with Belgium's Dimitri Ghion, Austria's Franz Mandl, France's Christophe Pinna and American Charles Focht.

[8] Sule opened his Paralympic Games against Spain's Francisco Jodar, defeating him 2 - 0 to advance to the 1/32 final.

In the 1/16th round, Sule then dispatched Hong Kong's Sui Lam Ip 0 - 2 to make it into the 1/8ths final of the Men's Open 1–5.

Meeting France's Guy Tisserant in the next round, Sule was then eliminated after losing 0 - 2 to the eventual gold medalist.