Nigeria’s women’s basketball team, D’Tigress, have reached a historic milestone, climbing to 8th place in the latest FIBA Women’s World Rankings their highest-ever position and the first time any African side has entered the global top 10. The team, who moved up from 11th with 640.1 ranking points, cemented their rise after winning a fifth […]
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 […]
Nigeria’s women’s basketball team, D’Tigress, cruised into the semifinals of the 2025 FIBA Women’s AfroBasket with a dominant 83–47 win over Cameroon in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. The defending champions overcame a slow start to stamp their authority on the quarterfinal tie, extending their unbeaten run in Africa to 27 games since 2015. Cameroon opened the […]
Abuja – Nigeria’s senior women’s national Basketball Team, D Tigress on Saturday booked a ticket to the 2020 Olympics Games in Tokyo. The team qualified despite losing 64-70 to host-Serbia in their second group game at the ongoing FIBA Olympic Games Qualifying Tournament. Mozambique’s quest to qualify ahead of Nigeria suffered a heavy knock as […]
Abuja – Nigeria’s senior women national basketball Team, D Tigress, on Thursday beat Mozambique 85-51 in the 2020 FIBA Women Olympic Qualifiers in Belgrade, Serbia. Nigeria are grouped alongside Mozambique, world champions U.S. and hosts Serbia. In the highly-entertaining game, all 12 Nigerian players on the roaster scored at least two points with Promise Amukamara […]
The Nigeria Basketball Federation (NBBF) has stated that the country’s female national team, the D’Tigress, would not suffer paucity of funds, as the team opens camp on February 1 in Serbia for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics qualifier championship taking place in Belgrade, Serbia from February 7 to 9. The NBBF Vice President, Babs Ogunade, said […]
The Nigeria women national basketball team, D’Tigress, have successfully defended the FIBA Women’s AfroBasket title they won two years ago. In a keenly-contested final match played on Sunday at the magnificent Dakar Arena which had as much as 15 thousand fans watching, the Nigeria women beat host Senegal 60-55 to win back-to-back continental titles. As […]
Nigerian professional basketball player and key member of Nigeria National Female Basketball team, D’Tigress, Evelyn Akhator is the latest Nigerian talent to be signed on to leading pan-African talent management agency, Temple Management Company. Drafted third overall pick in the 2017 Women’s National Basketball Association’s (WNBA) draft, Akhator joins the highly coveted league of sports […]
Evelyn Akhator, the top player of Nigeria’s Senior Women Basketball team, D’Tigress, and American WNBA club, Dallas Wings, says early preparation can put Nigeria among the best four teams at the upcoming FIBA Women World Cup 2018 in Spain. Akhator, in a News Agency of Nigeria interview, said better preparation will help the team to […]
President Muhammadu Buhari Wednesday hosted the players and officials of the D’Tigress, the Nigerian women basketball team. The team recently emerged African champions, the first time in over 10 years. The president also promised each of the victorious players N1 million while each official of the team will get N500,000.
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