Reigning African Champions, Nigeria will face world number one, United States of America, Serbia and Mozambique in the battle for a spot at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo.

The senior women National Basketball team has been seeded in pot three alongside Japan, Brazil and Great Britain ahead of the draw ceremony for the 2020 Olympic Games qualifying tournament.

The Nigeria Basketball Federation (NBBF) is in festive mood following Nigerian women national team’s passage to the Tokyo 2020 Olympics qualification tournament at the weekend.

D’Tigress camp came alive oyesterday as players and coaches reported to their base in Maputo for the 2020 pre-Olympics qualifiers coming up in Mozambique from November 14 to 17.

Success in organised sport is a process. It doesn’t just happen. Most of the successful basketball-playing nations of the world have well-articulated programmes, which ensure that at every given period, they churn out talents for their various national teams.

Another feather was added to the already decorated cap of the Nigeria Basketball Federation (NBBF) in the wee hours of yesterday in China. The NBBF was recognized as the federation with the Most Improved Women Team between 2017 and 2019 at the plenary session of the FIBA Congress and Awards Ceremony, which took place in Beijing yesterday.

In its own right, the victory of the Nigeria women’s basketball team in Senegal is worthy of applause. However, as with most triumphs in Africa’s most populous country, the context of it makes it all the more remarkable.

Nigeria’s major sponsor of women basketball, Zenith Bank yesterday put smiles on the faces of the victorious women's national team, D’Tigress with cash awards top the ladies during a brief reception at its corporate headquarters.

Nigeria yesterday defeated Senegal 60 to 55 to retain the FIBA Women Afrobasket title in Dakar.

Nigeria’s women national team, D’Tigress continued their assured march to retain their title yesterday when they defeated Congo to qualify...

Reigning African queens, D’Tigress of Nigeria yesterday in Dakar defeated Cameroun in their second game of Group B to book a quarterfinal date with Mali at the on-going FIBA Women Afrobasket holding in Senegal.

The Nigeria Basketball Federation (NBBF) has declared that the body borrowed money from different sources to ensure the Nigeria women basketball team (D’Tigress) departed the country on Wednesday for the 2019 AfroBasket billed to dunk off in Senegal from August 10 to 18.