As the 2019 FIBA Men’s World Cup gets underway in China this Saturday, the Nigeria national Male Basketball team, D’Tigers hope to start against Russia on a winning note. The team fully focused on the task ahead said starting with victory on Saturday against the Russians is very important as... Read more...
By Amaechi Agbo Nigeria is a very unique country, blessed with both human and material resources. The country is a big player in all aspects of human endeavours - sports, music, art and culture and science. She is breaking grounds in science and inventions. However, despite the success stori... Read more...
Nigeria continues to add more medals to her medal haul at the Africa Games on Sunday, August 25, 2019 with more medals won and lost. Team Nigeria ended Day 10 of the 12th African Games ongoing in Morocco with fifteen medals, having added six medals (2 Gold, 2 Silver and 2 Bronze) to the nine (9)... Read more...
With less than 6 days to the FIBA Men’s World Cup in China, the Nigeria Basketball Federation, NBBF is optimistic about government’s support for the D’Tigers team’s quest to make the nation proud. Speaking to journalists in Abuja after the presentation of the 2019 FIBA Women’s Afrobask... Read more...
It has been revealed that an American basketball player was handed a two-year suspension by The International Basketball Federation (FIBA) in 2018 after a drug test concluded that he was pregnant. According to a new report from Eurohoops, Donell ‘D.J’ Cooper's two-year-long suspension came a... Read more...
Nigeria’s Centre of Excellence, Lagos, has been selected as one of the host cities for the newly inaugurated Basketball Africa League (BAL). According to a press statement from FIBA, the other host cities selected alongside Lagos include Cairo (Egypt), Dakar (Senegal), Luanda (Angola), Rabat (... Read more...
A Nigerian born Binghamton University basketball player, Calistus Anyichie has died after drowning at Buttermilk Falls State Park near Ithaca, New York. According to a statement from the university, the 19-year-old entering his sophomore year at the university, drowned on Sunday. Anyichie was a ... Read more...
The stage is set for the final of the FIBA U16 African Championship 2019 as Egypt and Mali will be renewing a rivalry which dated back to the inaugural edition in 2009 with Mali winning three of their five meetings across three editions of the competition. Mali saw off Nigeria 54-45 in a keenly con... Read more...
The Young Tigers of Nigeria recorded a massive win over Tunisia in the quarter final stage of the FIBA U-16 African championship going on in Cape Verde on Friday, Bestchoicesports.com.ng understands The boys who put up a sterling performance to lay strong claim to one of the four available semi-f... Read more...
By Amaechi Agbo Nigeria’s U-16 volleyball team Thursday qualified for the quarter-final of the ongoing 2019 FIBA U-16 Africa Championship in Paria, Cape Verde after they defeated Algeria in the Round of 16, Bestchoicesports.com.ng can report The Nigeria teenagers recorded 75-64 score line a... Read more...