The hope of Nigeria’s senior basketball team, D’Tigers of participating in their first Olympic Games outing at this year’s world championship in London looked more elusive yesterday as they were drawn in a tough group in the last qualifying tournament. The D’Tigers, coached by Ayo Bakare to the last Afrobasket, where they finished third to [...]
Coach Adewunmi Aderemi of First Bank Club of Lagos said his team are battle ready to challenge current champions,First Deepwater, for the league’s title when hostilities in the domestic league begin by March. Aderemi, popularly called Owolo by pundits of the sports, said this year’s competitions will be taken with all seriousness , especially the [...]
President of the Nigeria Basketball Federation, (NBBF), Tijjani Umar, has charged coaches of the federation to focus more on building players locally rather than depending on already made players that are based abroad to win trophies. Umar was reacting to the over dependence of Nigerian coaches on foreign-based players for tourneys at the detriment of [...]
Delta State has earmarked the sum of N5 million to host the maiden edition of Victor Ochei National Open Wheelchair Basketball Championship in February next year. The inaugural championship is being sponsored by the Speaker of Delta State House of Assembly, Victor Ochei, for his interest in the welfare of special athletes. The President, Nigeria [...]
The third quarter of 2011 witnessed hectic schedule of events, both at the domestic scene and the continental level. The list of events that were played within the quarter include the Zenith Women’s League, National Sports Festival in Port Harcourt, 2011 Afrobasket championship for men in Madagascar and the Africa women tourney in Mali. The [...]
Miguel Anthonio, Vice President of Angolan Basketball Federation, and Leader of the delegation of Angolan teams to the just concluded 17th FIBA-Africa Club Championship in Lagos speaks on the organisation of the tourney and the performance of his teams and other teams in the championship. Q: Now that the 17th FIBA-Africa Club Championship has ended, [...]
The third quarter of 2011 witnessed hectic schedule of events, both at the domestic scene and the continental level. The list of events that were played within the quarter include the Zenith Women’s League, National Sports Festival in Port Harcourt, 2011 Afrobasket championship for men in Madagascar and the Africa women tourney in Mali. The [...]
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