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The Technical Committee of the Nigeria Basketball Federation has announced that the Women's senior National team D'Tigress will be in close camping for the FIBA Afrobasket Women's Championship until their departure on the 16th of August 2017. This became imperative following the request by the team’s Technical crew led by Sam Vincent with just few days to start of the championship which starts on the 18th. The decision became imperative following their third friendly against Raptors Men Basketball Club on Saturday in which they lost by 78points to 53 at the Indoor Sports Hall of the National Stadium, Lagos. According to the federation, the decision is to beef up preparations and perfect their technical and tactical plans for the championship after some lapses were noticed at the end of their third game. Speaking on behalf of the federation, the Vice President, Babs Oguande explained that, “This decision is in the best interest of all parties involved. The team is now at...

By Oluwafemi Adefeso With all set for the all important qualifiers for the 2015 FIBA Africa Basketball Championship and  All African Games between Nigeria and Burkina Faso on the 16th and 25th of this month in Ouagadougou and Burkina Faso respectively. The Nigerian camp was in high spirit yesterday following the arrival of the second foreign based player expected in camp with the arrival of  veteran D'Tigers captain  Olumide Oyedeji. The London Lions center who completed his second training session this morning having trained during the evening practice yesterday, disclosed that the team is in high spirit and will come back to Lagos for the 2nd leg with nothing short of victory.  "The guys are set and we are ready. All we want to to qualify for Tunisia 2015 and that's what we plan to do in Burkina Faso and later at home here in Nigeria". Oyedeji joins former NBA draftee Ejike Ugboaja, who is set for Greece after the qualifiers, following his move from Turkish 2...