D’Tigress
10 Feb
Nigeria’s female national basketball team D’Tigress have qualified for the basketball event of the Paris 2024 Olympics.
11 Oct 2023
Nigeria’s women national basketball team, D’Tigress, have been presented with the opportunity to make a back-to-back outing at the Olympic Games with the draws released by FIBA yesterday, a stakeholder, Sabinus Ikewuaku, has said.
8 Oct 2023
Nigeria’s Women National Basketball team’s (D’Tigress) Assistant Coach, Juliana Negedu Akere, believes the current African champions will qualify for the Paris 2024 Olympic, if they are adequately prepared for the qualifiers billed to hold in February next year.
7 Oct 2023
The Nigeria Basketball Federation (NBBF) is optimistic the Nigeria senior female basketball team, D’Tigress, will scale through what has been termed ‘group of death’ in their FIBA Women’s Olympic qualifiers. The four-time Africa champions will have their hands full as they seek ticket to their second consecutive Olympic Games basketball event in Paris next year.…
8 Aug 2023
The First Lady, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, on Monday, hosted the D'Tigress of Nigeria to a reception at the State House, Abuja.
7 Aug 2023
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, at the weekend led a grateful nation in showering encomium on Africa’s best women basketball team, D’Tigress, who on Saturday defeated Senegal to retain the FIBA Afrobasket Championship in Kigali, Rwanda.
6 Aug 2023
Nigeria power forward, Amy Okonkwo, was declared most valuable player (MVP), yesterday, as D’Tigress beat Senegal to retain the FIBA Women Afrobasket Championship in Kigali, Rwanda. Okonkwo, who also won the Best Power Forward Award, was instrumental as Nigeria defeated the Senegalese by 84 to 74 points. Under a new coach, Rena Wakama, who assumed duty…
5 Aug 2023
History was made today as Nigeria’s D’Tigress emerged victorious 83-74 in a thrilling showdown against Senegal in the 2023 FIBA Women's AfroBasket Final. The highly anticipated clash, held at the BK Arena, in the Rwandan capital, Kigali, lived up to its billing as one of the most evenly-matched Finals in the tournament's history with Nigeria…
4 Aug 2023
Defending champions, D’Tigress of Nigeria yesterday defeated hosts, Rwanda, to qualify for the final of the ongoing FIBA Afrobasket Championship holding in Kigali.
1 Aug 2023
Nigeria's senior women's national basketball team, D’Tigress, will know their quarterfinal opponents at the ongoing Rwanda 2023 FIBA Women’s Afrobasket Championship after today’s qualification match between Mozambique and Cote d'Ivoire.
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Reigning champions of the ongoing Women’s Afrobasket Championship, Nigeria’s D’Tigress, yesterday, in Kigali, Rwanda, started their title defence on a good note, beating Democratic Republic of Congo 69-35 in the opening group game.
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The Nigeria Basketball Federation (NBBF) has said that inadequate funding is hampering its programme ahead of the 2023 Afrobasket Championship scheduled to hold I Kigali, Rwanda from July 28 to August 6.
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