By Tony Nezianya (Media Officer, Team Nigeria) The 75-62 overwhelming victory of D’Tigress, the lowest-ranked team in the Paris 2024 Olympic women’s basketball tournament over their Australian counterparts has lifted the morale of other members of Team Nigeria. To Nigerians, especially Team Nigeria at the Games, this is a great victory. This is because their […]
The 2024 Basketball Africa League (BAL) playoffs tipped off at Kigali’s BK Arena, on Friday night, in the Rwandan capital. This is as Libya’s Al Ahly Ly defeated South Africa’s Cape Town Tigers 87-76. Also, Morocco’s FUS Rabat beat the defending champion Egypt’s Al Ahly 89-78 in their seeding games. Robert Golden led Al Ahly […]
From Our Correspondent The Nigerian community in South Africa has commended the country’s national women’s basketball team, the D’Tigress, for winning the FIBA Women’s Afrobasket title four conservative times. TheNewsZenith reports that the Nigerian team, at the BK Arena, Kigali in Rwanda, defeated Senegal, 84-74 to win at the weekend. The Nigerian team sets new […]