President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has rewarded Nigeria’s national women’s basketball team, D’Tigress, with the national honour of Officer of the Order of the Niger (OON). The president also gave then cash prize of $100,000, and housing, following their historic win at the 2025 FIBA Women’s AfroBasket Championship. The announcement was made on Monday during a […]
President Bola Tinubu has congratulated D’Tigress, Nigeria’s women’s basketball team, for reaching the final of the 2025 FIBA Women’s AfroBasket for the fifth consecutive time. In a statement issued on Sunday by Bayo Onanuga, special adviser to the president on information and strategy, Tinubu praised the resilience and dominance of the reigning African champions. D’Tigress […]
By Tom Okpe The House of Representatives has slightly, commended the outstanding performance of Nigeria’s female basketball team, D’Tigress who emerged winners of the just concluded 2023 FIBA Women’s Afrobasket Championship. According to Rep Akin Rotimi, House Spokesman, Chairman Committee on Media and Public Affairs, the historic fourth consecutive win is a testament to the […]
Defending champions Nigeria’s D’Tigress, as well as Mali, Mozambique and Hosts Senegal have booked their places in the quarter-finals of the ongoing FIBA Women’s AfroBasket.The Nigerian ladies overpowered their Cameroon counterparts 106-39 on Tuesday in a one-sided tie. Four players scored 14 points apiece including captain Adaora Elonu, Aisha Balarabe, debutant Promise Amukamara and Ify […]
D’Tigress Head Coach, Otis Hughley, is confident that his team has chances of successfully defending their FIBA AFROBASKET title when the competition gets underway on August 9, 2019. Following the team’s draw against Tunisia and Cameroon at the official draw ceremony held in Dakar, Senegal, Otis said the team can mount a strong title defence […]
The Nigeria senior male national basketball team, D’Tigers have been pitted against former champions and host Tunisia in Group A at the draws of the 2015 FIBA Africa Basketball Championship which took place at the Carthage Acropolium in Tunis on Saturday. The D’Tigers who are now the 6th ranked team in Africa (40th on the […]
Moncho Lopez has been in the spotlight before as a national team coach and currently sets his sights at securing Rio 2016 Olympic ticket for Angola. Following his appointment as Angola national team coach, Lopez once again knows what it feels like to be in the limelight, with newspaper and radio journalists eager to hear […]
The draw for AfroBasket 2015 took place at the Carthage Acropolium in Tunisia’s capital city of Tunis over the weekend. The results of the draw are as follows: Group A: Tunisia; Uganda; Nigeria; Wild card 1 Group B: Angola; Mozambique; Wild card 2; Morocco. Group C: Egypt; Gabon; Mali; Cameroon. Group D: Cote d’Ivoire; Cape […]
Nigeria’s male basketball team, D’Tigers, are set to out-dunk Burkina Faso team today in a rescheduled AfroBasket/All Africa Games Qualifier in Ouagadougou. The qualifier was earlier billed to hold last Saturday in the country’s capital but was moved to today by the hosts, for logistics reasons. Nigeria‘s 18-man squad arrived the West African country on […]