By Ebube Dike Mr. Dare made this assertion when Nigeria Basketball Federation, NBBF President, Eng. Musa Kida paid the Minister a courtesy visit on Tuesday after returning from the just concluded Afro Basketball qualifiers in Kigali, Rwanda where 'D Tigers' won all their matc... Read more...
The Nigeria Basketball Federation has announced that the race for a place in the 2021 FIBA Afrobasket is not yet over as Nigerians continue to shower accolades on D'Tigers and the federation after a perfect start in Rwanda. With conflicting media reports over the team's qualification, the federa... Read more...
Nigeria’s |national men Basketball team, D’Tigers, will begin the quest to qualify for the 2021 FIBA AfroBasket tournament on Thursday when they square up against South Sudan at the Kigali Arena, Bestchoicesports.com.ng can report The team is led by the new coach, Mike Brown, who travelled a... Read more...
By Ebube Dike As stakeholders look ahead to the new season following the recent Presidential Task Force on Covid-19 lifting of ban on contact sports, clubs have been advised to put their houses in order in readiness for the new season. This was contained in the letter addressed to the State B... Read more...
Basketball has been highlighted as a veritable tool to curb insurgency in the North East region, youth restiveness and unemployment in Nigeria. This assertion was made by the North East zone representative on the board of the Nigeria Basketball Federation, Alhaji Abba Kaka. Kaka who is the Ch... Read more...
The Nigeria Basketball Federation has announced that final camping for the 2021 FIBA Afrobasket qualifiers will commence on November 23, 2020. Making this known in Abuja, the NBBF Secretary General, Afolabi-Oluwayemi Olabisi said players are expected to fly into Kigali. On the duration of the... Read more...
The Nigeria Basketball Federation (NBBF) has budgeted the sum of $4m (about N2 billion) to prosecute the basketball event of the postponed Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games billed for 2021. Vice President of the NBBF and chairman of the technical committee, Babatunde Ogunade revealed recently that the pr... Read more...
The Nigeria Basketball Federation has revealed that listing a 20 man provisional list for the 2021 FIBA Afrobasket qualifiers in Rwanda was not an easy job. Reacting to a recent feedback over the absence of some players who featured at the 2019 World Cup in China, the NBBF President Engr Musa Ki... Read more...
The President of the Nigeria Basketball Federation, Engr Musa Kida has commiserated with the family and friends of Felix Kimto who was stabbed to death in Abuja on Tuesday. The sad incident which happened right in front of the Package B of the Moshood Abiola Stadium has thrown the basketball... Read more...
The leadership of the Nigeria Basketball Federation, NBBF has affirmed that qualification for the 2021 FIBA Afrobasket Men's tournament is non-negotiable. This was stated on Tuesday as countries get set for the next window of the 2021 FIBA Afrobasket qualifiers to be hosted in Rwanda and Eg... Read more...