Tag: Musa Kida

Following the thrilling Atlantic and Savannah Conferences held simultaneously in Enugu and Abuja, respectively, attention now shifts to Lagos

The Ministry of Youth and Sports Development said the D’Tigress demonstrated the resilience of the Nigerian spirit and this propelled ...

The president of the Nigeria Basketball Federation insists that the decisions made are best for Nigerian basketball and that players ...

The NBBF is in a rush to raise a team to represent Nigeria at the AfroBasket tournament, which kicks off ...

Kida while addressing D'Tigers on Saturday thanked the team for their dedication and swift response to the call of duty.

The reversal comes barely six weeks into the self-imposed two-year basketball ban.

The sports ministry and the Federal Government may be dragged to court on the self-imposed two-year ban

Mark has asked the Sunday Dare-led sports ministry to come clean on the endless crisis which continues to cripple Nigerian ...

NBBF members are said to have come together to discuss and finalise strategies for a viable basketball season.

While the NBBF crisis has been counterproductive on all fronts, it is not yet clear if the latest correspondence from ...

D'Tigress will achieve more if there is a concerted effort to unite all the warring parties.

Two rival boards still lay claim to the leadership of the Federation

The standoff between the Ministry of Sports and the caretaker committee it instituted has subsided with the NBBF elections suspended

A statement by the Ministry’s Permanent Secretary, Ismaila Abubakar, on Monday had directed an indefinite suspension of the NBBF Elective ...

D'Tigress won their third consecutive AfroBasket title and are now undefeated in Africa since 2017.

The men's basketball team failed in Tokyo and lately at the AfroBasket tournament.

The NBBF leaders believe the management of the national teams is in capable hands.

The 31-year old is set to be the youngest coach to ever lead the Nigerian men’s national team.

D'Tigers is led by its new coach, Mike Brown, who travelled ahead of the invited players to Kigali on Monday.

The NBBF President described the demise of the fast-rising referee as shocking and very difficult to comprehend.

The senior basketball men and women’s teams had earlier qualified for the 2020 Olympics.

Nnamdi Vincent led all Nigerian scorers with 15 points while Cote d’Ivoire’s Deon Thompson led all scorers with 19 points.

Crisis in the NBBF began last year when two factional leaders, Musa Kida and Tijani Umar, emerged as president from ...

The competition will hold between November 11 and 18.