Nigeria will face Mali in the final of the FIBA U18 Women’s AfroBasket 2024 on Saturday (today) at 4 pm at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. Junior D’Tigress reached this stage by defeating Uganda 71-67 in a nail-biting semifinal clash at the same venue on Friday, with the narrow win also securing them a ticket for the FIBA U19 …

Two-time champions, Mali have dumped Nigeria’s male representatives, Junior D’Tigers out of the FIBA AfroBasket championship holding in South Africa, BSNSports.com.ng reports. Despite leading in the first quarter by 23-19, the Junior D’Tigers trailed by 2 points at the end of the first half by 40-38 to the Malians. It ended 81-70 in favour of the Malians who picked the …

Nigeria’s Idubamo Beggi has been named among the ten best players of the group phase of the 2024 FIBA U-18 Women’s AfroBasket Championships in Pretoria, South Africa, and is in the running for the MVP award of that stage of the event that entered the winner-takes-all knockout stages on Wednesday. She leads the Nigerians in efficiency, points, and assists, having …

Former UFC middleweight champion, Israel Adesanya, has dropped out of the UFC pound-for-pound rankings for the first time in five years, following his recent submission loss to South Africa’s Dricus du Plessis. The Nigerian-born fighter, who has long been a staple in the UFC’s top 15, now faces an uncertain future as he contemplates his next move in the sport. …

It is a record time for Nigeria Basketball as the country’s boys and girls teams have qualified for the quarter-finals of the African U18 basketball championship ongoing in South Africa. It is a historic time for Nigeria in the Afrobasket U18 event, which serves as the qualification tournament for the FIBA Junior World Cup billed for Switzerland. It is the …

Nigeria’s Under-18 women’s national basketball team, the Junior D’Tigress, proved to be too dominant as they recorded a 77-point margin victory over Zimbabwe at the ongoing FIBA U18 Women’s Afrobasket in South Africa on Thursday. The Junior D’Tigress beat the Zimbabweans 107-30 in their second game in Group C to record the biggest win in the competition so far, surpassing …

Players of the Nigeria U-18 boys’ basketball team have been denied visas to the 2024 FIBA U18 Afrobasket by the South African Consulate at the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. This decision has jeopardised Nigeria’s trip to the biennial tournament starting in South Africa on Tuesday (today), with Nigeria billed to face Egypt in Pretoria later in the day. The players, …

Greek-Nigerian basketball star Giannis Antetokounmpo and his long-term partner Mariah Riddlesprigger, the mother of his three children, tied the knot in Greece on Sunday according to media reports. According to Greek media, the ceremony was held at the luxury Costa Navarino resort near Pylos in the Peloponnese on Sunday evening, the culmination of three days of festivities involving a white …

The Nigeria Basketball Federation (NBBF) has released lists of players in the boys and girls categories of the FIBA U18 African Championship to be held in Pretoria, South Africa, from 1 to 14 September. A total of 24 players (12 per team) will represent the country at the championship, featuring 12 topmost national teams on the continent, namely, Angola, Cameroon, …

Nigeria’s senior men’s national basketball team, D’ Tigers, dropped four places in the latest FIBA ranking released on Thursday, slumped from 39th to 42nd position in the world. The former African champions garnered 299.7 points during the month under review and ranked the sixth best team in Africa behind South Sudan, Coted’Ivoire, Angola, Tunisia and Egypt who are the top …