As the DStv-sponsored Nigeria men’s basketball league enters Week 4 in both the Atlantic and Savannah Conferences this weekend, all eyes will be on Oluyole Warriors of Ibadan. The Oyo State owned club, who only this season regained their top flight league status after playing in the lower league for over 14 years, have began [...]
Barely 7 days before Nigeria’s senior national team, D’Tigers begin camping in Lagos for the 2013 Afrobasket holding in Abidjan, Cote D’Ivoire, captain of the team, Olumide Oyedeji has predicted a good out for the team. Oyedeji, who led the D’Tigers to their maiden Olympics in London, while speaking with P.M.NEWS Sports in Lagos on [...]
Assistant coach of Customs of Lagos, Muhammed Abba has expressed his satisfaction over his team’s hard earned victory against Comets of Lagos in the DStv Basketball League match played on Saturday at the Indoor Sports Hall of the National Stadium in Surulere, Lagos. Prior to their Week 3 matches on Saturday, Customs had suffered consecutive [...]
Chairman of the Oyo State Basketball Association, OSBA, Babatunde Babalola, has urged match referees in the ongoing DStv-sponsored Nigerian basketball league to improve their level of officiating in a bid to enhancing their chances of being invited to officiate at international events. The Chief Executive Officer of First Deepwater Discovery Limited, the parent club of [...]
Dodan Warriors and Union Bank of Lagos at the weekend were the biggest winners of the DStv-sponsored Nigeria Basketball League week one matches played in the Atlantic Conference at the Indoor Hall of the National Stadium in Surulere, Lagos. Both teams began their league title chase in a commanding fashion as they recorded victories against [...]
Stakeholders of Nigerian basketball were full of joy when Nigeria Basketball Federation, NBBF, and DStv, sponsor of the men’s league announced a new four-year deal for the league. The new deal is worth about N230 million ($1.45 million) for the duration of 2013 till 2017, a substantial increase on the N150 million ($1 million) that [...]
Reigning champions, First Deepwater Basketball Club and former champions, First Bank of Lagos won their respective groups to emerge champions at the just concluded first phase of Zenith Bank Women’s Basketball League in Abuja. With an average of 73.85 points per game, coach Lateef Erinfolami-led Deepwater emerged winners of Group A that included teams such [...]
