Nigeria s president has withdrawn the country s national teams from international competition for two years, putting the country in violation of FIBA s rules and at risk of a ban.
Veteran Australian basketball coach Liz Mills will launch the Global Women in Basketball Coaching Network in August, to empower female coaches outside the USA.
With the NBA opening an office in Lagos, Nigeria earlier this year, country head and NBA Africa VP Gbemisola Abudu is on a mission to develop basketball from the ground up, to find more Giannis Antetokounmpos.
Nigeria s women s basketball team are about to have some of their outstanding allowances and bonuses paid, after taking to social media to berate government and basketball officials.
Nigeria coach Mike Brown relishing prospect of facing boss Steve Kerr s USA at Olympics
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Nigeria Women s basketball assistant coach Mfon Udoka believes no one will be taking Nigeria lightly. (0:32)
Nigeria s basketball teams are relishing the prospect of pitting their respective mettles against the benchmark Team[s] USA at the upcoming Olympic Games in Tokyo.
With the rescheduled 2020 Games now just five months away, the draws for the basketball event albeit incomplete for the men have got Nigeria s basketball fraternity even more confident of accomplishing big things in Japan.
Nigeria s women are ranked 14 and find themselves in a deadly group that includes the top- ranked USA, number 5-ranked France, and Japan at number 10.