Chairman of the National Sports Commission, NSC, Shehu Dikko has saluted D’Tigress for winning the 2025 FIBA Women’s AfroBasket title for the fifth time in a row, reports Completesports.com.
D’Tigress defeated Mali 78-64 in the final of the competition in Abidjan on Sunday night.
Dikko said that the passion President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has for Nigerian Sports is already paying off with consistent international success of the national teams.
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” This is what Nigerians have yearned for, to have a President who is very committed to Sports development and seeing this back to back international feat coming in football and now basketball is no mean fest”, Dikko told NSC media.
Director General of the NSC Honourable Bukola Olopade said this victory has once again shown the unrivalled vast potentials of the Nigerian youthful population in every aspect of sports.
” We are the best sporting country on the continent and the vision of Mr President is to consistently maximise this with scientific strategies and policies at the sports commission which is what myself and the chairman are focused on”.
” This is not an easy record that our girls have set and we are determined to keep it up in all our sports”.
By Adeboye Amosu
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We are winning with players groomed abroad and these politicians are lying to themselves that they are developing sports…..???
We hosted the African u18/u20 athletics championship in Abeokuta a few weeks ago and South Africa roasted us on home soil with what could pass as their B team. We only excellence where and when foreign born or foreign based players/athletes are involved.
So mr nsc chair, what sports are we developing…??
Even something as fundamental as camping b4 competitions is nothing to write home about….these athletes just give their all from the depth of their being for the sake of their careers, some are ditching us for other countries and you decieve yourself with “mr president is committed to sports development”…..??