Nigeria has won one Olympic taekwondo medal in its history.

Chika Chukwumerije won one of the two bronze medal matches against Uzbekistan's Akmal Irgashev in the over-80 kilogram category at Beijing 2008.

Chukwumerije also won the All-Africa Games title in Algiers in 2007.  

Recent success has been limited with Nigeria not represented at Rio 2016, despite qualifying a competitor for the three Olympics prior to that.

The country's team failed to perform to expectations at the Olympic qualifying tournament in Morocco in February. 

As a result, a new competition was launched in a bid to find fresh talent.

Oriss believes that the standard of Nigerian taekwondo players will improve if they can constantly compete in competitions.

"Athletes get better by participating in competitions within and outside the country and the Federation alone cannot fund such; there is need for improved corporate and individual sponsorship," Oriss told the News Agency of Nigeria.

"Taekwondoists are not only prepared for competitions by the Federation, they also go for competitions on the bill of corporate or individual sponsors, and we hope to see more of that.

"Some sponsors also organise competitions, they work with the Federation for proper regulation and organisation of such events.

"All these help to develop the game."

Among those who failed to qualify for Rio 2016 was African Games gold and silver medallist Uzoamaka Otuadinma and African Games silver medallist Chinazum Nwosu.

The team's performance drew criticism from NTF President George Ashiru.

"I’m not happy Nigeria lost the Olympic ticket in taekwondo, but some people think that they could achieve result out of selfish interest," he said.

"What is important at the moment is for us to see the Olympic miss as a bitter lesson that we have to learn from to move the game forward in Nigeria."