Head coach of Nigeria’s senior male basketball team, Mohamed Abdulrahman, has blamed poor funding for his side’s underwhelming performance at the recently concluded 2025 FIBA AfroBasket qualifiers in Monastir, Tunisia. The 2015 African champions had initially withdrawn from the AfroBasket qualifiers window due to the inability of the Ministry of Sports to provide the federation with the needed funds for …

The Basketball Africa League (BAL) has announced that five new teams and three new countries are among the 12 club teams from 12 African countries that will compete in the 2024 BAL season, which will tip off on Saturday, 9 March 2024, at SunBet Arena in Pretoria, South Africa. The fourth BAL season will feature a record 48 games in …

D’Tigress of Nigeria have qualified for the women’s basketball event of the 2024 Olympics in Paris. Nigeria booked a place after Belgium defeated Senegal on Friday at the ongoing 2024 Olympics qualification tournament in Belgium. Earlier, D’Tigress had lost to the US 100-46 in their second game at the competition, but a favourable result in the other match in the group sent them …

After failing to pick the 2024 Olympic Games ticket, Nigeria’s D’Tigers are expected to be back in action in February 2024. FIBA Africa has released the official draw and date for the qualifiers slated to begin next year. According to the draw earlier conducted D’Tigers is placed in group B. The first window will take place from 19 to 27 …

D’Tigers have emerged winners of the friendly China Autumn Basketball Tour tagged Jishou Rural Commercial Bank Cup in China. China provided D’Tigers an opportunity to be back in action for the first time since their ouster from the Paris 2024 Pre-Olympic qualifying tournament hosted by Nigeria in Lagos. The Nigeria senior men’s basketball team defeated some of the best-ranked basketball …

African champions D’Tigress will face Senegal, United States and Senegal at the 2024 FIBA Women’s Olympic Qualifying Tournament. The draws, which took place in Hungary on Thursday, had the Nigerians drawn in Tournament 2, which will be held in Antwerp, Belgium from 8th February 2024. D’Tigress were seeded in Pot 3 due to their 11th-ranked position in the world and …

D’Tigers beat Team USA 75-70 in their first game of the ongoing friendly tournament in China. The Nigeria senior men’s basketball team left the country on Monday for China on a playing tour of games which began this week and will end on 20 October. The team failed in their quest to pick a slot for the Paris 2024 Olympics …

African champions D’Tigers will know their group opponents in the upcoming Olympic qualifying tournament on Thursday, 5th October. The Nigerian side qualified for the final stage of the qualifiers in August when they emerged as the Women’s Afrobasketball Champions in Rwanda beating Senegal 84-74 in a thrilling final to emerge champions of Africa for the fourth consecutive time. Nigeria’s Amy …

NBA Africa in partnership with the Agence Française de Developpement (AFD) unveiled a newly refurbished basketball court at the Campos Stadium in Lagos, offering youths in the communities the opportunities to learn and play the game. The renovation project, which began in June was in collaboration with the Lagos State Sports Commission. Speaking at the launch, the French Ambassador to …

Nigeria’s men’s basketball team, D’Tigers, began their journey to the Paris 2024 Olympic Games on the wrong foot after a 93-87 loss to fierce rivals Senegal in their first game of the pre-Olympic qualifiers at the Eko Hotels Convention Centre on Monday. Nigeria raced to an early lead in the first quarter but the Senegalese fought back to reduce the …