The 15th edition of the Nestlé Milo Secondary Basketball Championship will today get underway across the country with the state preliminaries billed to run from March 4 through March 18. A record 7,000 schools will be participating in this year’s edition. In a chit-chat with newsmen to herald this year’s championship, Category Business Manager(Milo), Mrs. [...]
Chairman of Oyo state Basketball Association,BabatundeBabalola, has urged newly promoted Oluyole Warriors Basketball Club to work hard ahead the 2012/ 2013 Dstv Premier Basketball League season which is expected to dunk-off in February. Speaking with our correspondent in Lagos recently the Oil and Gas mogul charged the Oluyole Warriors to stay focus and work towards [...]
Two Nigerian basketball officials, a referee and a match commissioner, were among the list of 20 officials released yesterday by the African basketball governing body, FIBA Africa, for the 2012 Africa Champions Cup for Men holding in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea. A press release signed by the spokesman of FIBA Africa Zone III, Olusegun Ikuesan and [...]
Defending champions of the Africa Champions Cup for Men, Etoile Du Sahel Basketball Club of Tunisia will stake their title against 11 other clubs from across the continent when the tournament commences next Thursday in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea. Etoile, who won the 2011 title with an 82 – 60 points’ victory over former champions Primeiro [...]
Nigerian Men’s Basketball team, D’Tigers will today confront their USA counterpart in the final preliminary stage of the Olympic Games holding in London. The outcome of the final basketball match will determine whether the Nigerian team will qualify for the next stage of the competition as their chance to continue will depend if they can [...]
Nigeria’s chances of advancing to the next round of the London 2012 Olympic Games suffered a setback yesterday afternoon , as Lithuania basketball team beat D’Tigers 72-53 points in their second Group A match. The Lithuanians, who were on a revenge mission for their loss to Nigeria’s D’Tigers during the Olympic qualifiers in Venezuela shortly [...]
Nigeria’s Basketball team, D’Tigers will be on the march again today when they play their second game of the Basketball event at the Olympics. The Nigerian team routed their African Champions, Tunisia, 60-56 to set tongues wagging and sent out warning signals that they are here for business. Their opponents, Lithunia suffered a set-back in [...]
The Nigerian basketball senior national team, D’Tigers yesterday opened their Olympics account on a positive note as they defeated fellow Africans, Tunisia 60-56 points at the London 2012 Olympic Games. The Coach Ayodele Bakare boys, who are debuting in the quadrennial Games edged the first half winning the first quarter 18-7 points and posting a [...]
The story of Nigeria’s male Basketball team to the Olympics is like that of rising from grass to grace or zero to hero. It is more like the Biblical rejected stone. Olumide Ayodeji, one of the henchmen who has toiled towards this uncommon transformation of the D’Tigers said that they have moved away from under-dogs [...]
The Nigerian senior basketball national team, D’Tigers will open their maiden Olympics Games adventure against African champions, Tunisia in an all African affairs on Sunday July 29 by 9am local time. Nigeria, who qualified for the Games following a third position placement at the Olympics Qualifying Tournament in Caracas, Venezuela, will clash with world number [...]
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