Nigeria will play 2019 champions DR Congo for a place in the semi-finals of the ongoing 2023 FIBA AfroCan on Thursday after they overcame Gabon 71-55 at Pavilhao Multiusos de Luanda on Wednesday. Although the D’Tigers began the competition brilliantly with a comfortable victory over Mali in their first game, they lost 57-48 to Angola in their final group game. …

Nigeria won their first game of the 2023 FIBA AfroCan against Mali on Sunday with a 62-56 scoreline at the Pavilhão Multiusos de Luanda in Angola. D’Tigers missed automatic qualification for the championship after losing their last game to hosts Ivory Coast 74-65, in the combined FIBA Africa Zone 2 and 3 qualifiers in Abidjan last week. They had lost …

The basketball community has been thrown into a frenzy after the Nigeria Basketball Federation announced via a tweet on Friday the appointment of coach Rena Wakama as head coach for the Team Nigeria Women’s basketball team for two years. D’Tigress have been without a head coach since Otis Hughley resigned from his role with the five-time Afrobasket champions in 2022. …

FIBA has banned the Russia and Belarus men’s basketball teams from the second-chance qualification tournaments for the 2024 Olympics. FIBA, or the International Basketball Federation, announced the development on Tuesday. Athletes from Russia and Belarus have faced sanctions from a multitude of sports since Russia invaded Ukraine in February last year. As Moscow’s assault on Ukraine stretches into a second year, the …

Nigeria’s men’s basketball team, D’Tigers maintained their place as the top team in the continent and the 19th best team in the world in the most recent FIBA world rankings despite missing out on the FIBA World Cup. In the just finished African qualifying round for World Cup in Luanda, D’Tigers won two games — beating Guinea and Côte d’Ivoire …

The President of Nigeria Basketball Federation (NBBF), Igoche Mark has promised para-basketball players that the Federation would commence a para-basketball league in the country by next year. After watching a para-basketball game at the ongoing National Para Games in Abuja on Wednesday, Mark said that the NBBF Board had a target of developing the basketball sport from the grassroots. ‘This …