With chants of “Team Harry, Team Harry” when they scored, the prince’s team took an early lead with players seated on foam mats, some missing legs.
But they lost the match to the commander’s squad Team CDS.
The couple later attended a reception for military families where they were greeted by traditional dancers who also performed acrobatics.
Prince Harry talked about visiting the miltitary hospital in northwest Kaduna State on Friday, where he saw dozens of wounded soldiers.
Two of them were positive, one even doing push-ups on his bed.
“What this proved to me, what this reminds me of is the power of seeing what is possible post injury,” the Duke told the reception. “That is what this is all about.”
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On the Duke’s volleyball team was former Nigerian soldier Peacemaker Azuegbulam, who lost his leg in combat in the northeast, and became the first African to win gold at the Invictus Games in Germany last year.
“It’s an honour for Nigeria and for Africa to have Prince Harry over,” he told AFP before the match.
Harry, a former army captain who served as a helicopter pilot in Afghanistan, founded Invictus in 2014. Since then the games have grown, promoting rehabilitation through sports.
He was invited to visit by Nigeria’s military command. Chief of Defence Staff General Christopher Musa has praised the experience of Nigerian troops at the Invictus Games.
On Friday, Harry had travelled without his wife to Kaduna in Nigeria’s northwest to visit a military hospital and speak with the troops wounded in combat
On Sunday, the couple will travel to the country’s economic capital Lagos to take part in a basketball event and a fundraiser.
Nigeria’s military forces are battling armed groups on several fronts.
A grinding jihadist insurgency in the northeast has killed more than 40,000 people and displaced another two million more since 2009.
In north western and central states, heavily armed criminal gangs known locally as bandits carry out mass kidnappings for ransom and raid villages from camps hidden deep in remote forests.
AFP