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D’Tigress Clinch Fifth Women’s Afrobasket title in Côte d’Ivoire

Nigeria's senior women's basketball team, D'Tigress, have secured a fifth consecutive FIBA Women's Afrobasket title by out classing Mali 78-64 on Sunday, August 3, 2025, at the Palais des Sports de Treichville in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. D'Tigress, who have been on an incredible winning streak, demonstrated their prowess on both ends of the court, fending off a determined Malian side that sought to end Nigeria's reign. Read Also: D’Tigress beat Senegal […]

todayAugust 3, 2025

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D’Tigress beat Senegal to Clinch Women’s Afrobasket Final slot 

Nigeria's D'Tigress have booked their place in the final of the 2025 FIBA Women’s Afrobasket after a hard fought 75-68 victory over Senegal in a nail-biting semifinal on Saturday August, 3, 2025, at the electrified Palais des Sports de Treichville, Côte d’Ivoire. The much-anticipated "final before the final" lived up to its billing from two of the continent’s basketball powerhouses and longtime rivals went head-to-head for a place in the […]

todayAugust 2, 2025

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Ejike Ugboaja Foundation Awards 10 Basketball Scholarships

Ejike Ugboaja Foundation organized a basketball training and screening exercise for secondary schools on the 28th of June, 2025. The event, which took place at the basketball court of the Moshood Abiola Stadium in Abuja, brought together schools from different parts of the FCT. Read Also: TSWAKO FOUNDATION Hosts U18 Tennis in Abuja Founder of the Foundation Ejike Ugboaja, an ex-international basketball player and the first athlete to be drafted into […]

todayJune 29, 2025

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AfroBasket 2025: D’Tigers Draw Tough Group

Nigeria’s D’Tigers have been pitted against holders Tunisia, Cameroon and Madagascar in Group B of the 2025 FIBA AfroBasket tournament set to hold from August 12 to 24 in Angola. The championship draw took place this past Friday in Luanda, the capital city of Angola. The draws for all 16 teams were made according to a seeding system based on the FIBA world rankings, and the ceremony was attended by […]

todayMay 12, 2025

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NSC Launches Nationwide Monitoring for Sports Festival Qualifiers

In preparation for the 22nd National Sports Festival, the National Sports Commission (NSC) leadership will conduct supervisory and monitoring activities at various centers hosting the zonal team sports eliminations this week. States will be jostling to secure spots at the different zonal centers that Include; Ibadan, Benin, Enugu , Kaduna, Plateau and Yobe state for various Team Sports at the 22nd National Sports Festival coming up in Ogun State. Read […]

todayFebruary 25, 2025

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BAL: Rivers Hoopers To Battle AS Douanes In Seeding Game

Nigeria's representatives at the 2024 Basketball Africa League (BAL), Rivers Hoopers, will battle Senegal side AS Douanes in one of the four seeding games in the playoffs in Kigali next week. The two sides faced each other twice in the Sahara Conference held last week in Dakar with each victorious in one of the ties. Unlike previous formats in BAL where teams advanced straight to the knockout stage (quarterfinals), teams […]

todayMay 16, 2024

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FCT School Sports Resumes After 2 days Of Rest At Eight Centres

By: Chinedum Ohanusi Action in the 2024 edition of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) School Sports Festival, resumes on Monday, after Saturday and Sunday were observed as official rest days by the athletes, officials, the media, and multitude of school children who trooped to the eight designated centers to cheer on their representatives of their respective schools. The fiesta which is broadly divided into three categories; Primary Schools (13 and […]

todayFebruary 26, 2024

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2024 FCT School Sports Festival Set To Kick Off

More details have emerged on the 2024 FCT School Sports Festival, scheduled to begin on Thursday, February 22, 2024; at eight designated centers. Abaji, Kwali, Tungan-maje Gwagwalada, Kuje, Tudun Wada, Karshi and Dutse. According to the Media Coordinator of the fiesta, Chinedum Ohanusi; the competition has been classified into three categories; that's Primary Schools; Junior Secondary and Senior Secondary Schools. Primary School pupils will complete in the following events: Track/Sprints; […]

todayFebruary 21, 2024

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NBBF President – Mike Brown Still D’Tigers Coach

President of Nigeria Basketball Federation (NBBF), Musa Kida, has assured that coach Mike Brown is still the head coach of Nigeria’s senior male basketball team D’Tigers. Kida made this pronouncement while interfacing with journalist at HFIA Garden & Event Centre, at the inaugural world press conference on Thursday in Abuja. Also Read: SPRF To Raise ₦10 billion Reward For Nigeria’s Sporting Youth He said, the NBBF has not asked Mike Brown […]

todayOctober 27, 2023