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27 Feb
Nigeria would have done better at the just-ended first window of the 2025 AfroBasket qualifiers in Monastir, Tunisia, if the team had enough support and time to prepare for the championship, the players and their officials have said.
25 Feb
Less than 24 hours after suffering 82-89 defeat to unranked Libya in their opening game of the 2025 AfroBasket qualifiers, Nigeria’s men team, D’Tigers, again went down 62-72 to Uganda in their second match, yesterday
24 Feb
The ‘new’ Minister of Sports Development, Senator John Owan Eno, is an enigmatic, silent operator. You hardly see him, yet, quietly, he is impacting Nigerian sports in a big way.
22 Feb
Former champions, D’Tigers of Nigeria, have pulled out of the 2025 FIBA AfroBasket qualifiers billed to start in Tunisia this weekend. Nigeria is drawn in Group B of the 2025 AfroBasket qualifiers alongside Cape Verde, Libya and Uganda.
6 Oct
Nigeria senior male basketball team, D’Tigers, Wednesday night, defeated the USA national basketball team 75-70 in the ongoing Autumn tournament holding in China .
26 Aug 2023
I am writing this on Friday morning. A new Minister of Sports for Nigeria has been in office for one week. The sports fraternity welcomes him to the beleaguered sector.
14 Aug 2023
The D’Tigers are upbeat about their chances of qualifying for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, which pre-tournament championship begins at the Convention Centre of Eko Hotels, Lagos, today.
13 Aug 2023
Nigeria’s senior men's basketball team, D’Tigers, will begin a chase for another Olympic Games outing tomorrow at the FIBA pre-qualifying championship, which holds at the Eko Hotel Convention Centre, Lagos.
10 Jul 2023
Man-of-the-match Michael Afuwape on Sunday, led the Nigeria National Men’s Basketball team, D’Tigers to their first-ever win at the FIBA AfroCan tournament.

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