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Nigeria's women's basketball team are about to have some of their outstanding allowances and bonuses paid, after taking to social media to berate government and basketball officials.
Advertisement On Tuesday, TheCable reported that the kits shipped into the country by Peak, Nigerian basketball teams kits sponsor, are being delayed at the seaport. Babs Ogunade, a board member of NBBF, said the delay in getting the kits out of the port is due to “a lack of documentation and miscommunication between the ministry of finance and the ministry of sports”. In a fresh development, the NBBF Advertisement Musa Kida, NBBF’s president, was quoted as saying the sports ministry is communicating with the finance ministry to sort out the bottleneck. “The FG is aware of the situa...
Punch Newspapers Sections Published 12 February 2021 IN the next few months, Nigerian sport will face a huge moment of truth as the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games get under way in Japan. Sunday Dare, the Minister of Youths and Sports, set the tone in December by vowing that “the days of jamborees in the Olympics are over.” By inference, the target for Nigerian athletes is to reach the podium in the events they are participating in. This is a tall order, as the sticky situations that hindered Team Nigeria in previous Games are still perceptible. To break the awful cycle of previous outings, Nige...
Punch Newspapers Sections Johnny Edward The Nigerian Basketball Federation has announced that Mfon Udofia will coach D’Tigers when the 2015 AfroBasket champions take on South Sudan, Mali and Rwanda in their final qualifiers for the 2021 men’s Afrobasket championship in Monastir, Tunisia, from February 19 to 21. This was made known in a statement from the NBBF on Sunday. Udofia is currently an assistant coach with Skyhawks in the NBA G League and he is set to become the youngest coach ever to handle the senior men’s national team of Nigeria. The 31-year-old, who joined D’Tigers’ tec...