Politics

Reps commends D’Tigress on 4th Consecutive 2023 FIBA Women’s Afrobasket Champ

Ihesiulo Grace 8 August 2023 0

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

Sports

Afrobasket: How D’Tigress zoomed into quarterfinal

Ihesiulo Grace 15 August 2019 0

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

Sports

D’Tigress coach confident of FIBA Afrobasket title defence

Ihesiulo Grace 1 August 2019 0

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 […]

Basketball Extra Sports

AfroBasket: D'Tigers Seeded against Host Tunisia

Ihesiulo Grace 10 April 2015 0

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 […]

Basketball Extra Sports

Lopez Eyes Rio Ticket for Angola

Ihesiulo Grace 7 April 2015 0

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 […]

Sports

FIBA AfroBasket: Nigeria Draws Tunisia, Uganda in Group A

Ihesiulo Grace 7 April 2015 0

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 […]

Federation Watch

Afrobasket : D’TIGERS BATTLE BURKINA FASO TODAY

Ihesiulo Grace 16 March 2015 0

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 […]