2025 Afrobasket Championship: NSC Describes D'Tigress Feat As Monumental

2025 Afrobasket Championship: NSC Describes D'Tigress Feat As Monumental

Precious Oham

The National Sports Commission, NSC, has described as monumental the performance of the Nigeria Women's Basketball team, the D"Tigress, for winning the Afrobasket for the fifth time in a row to set a new record, BSNSports.com.ng reports.

The Nigerian girls showed passion, grit, confidence, composure and the calmness of true champions as they overpowered the rest of the continent for the umpteen time at the Palais de Sports de Treichville in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire.

The Rene Wakama's girls defeated Mali 78 -64 points in Sunday's final to win Nigeria's 7th Women Afrobasket title and further stretched the team's unbeaten run in the competition to 29 since 2015.

The Leadership of the NSC, led by the chairman, Mallam Shehu Dikko, and Director General, Hon. Bukola Olopade, whose tenure has continued to reshape and refocus the winning formula of Nigerian sports, commends the girls for their consistent heart for the country.

The NSC Chairman, who lived in Abidjan alongside other top Federal Government delegation to support the girls, said " The Passion President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has for Nigerian Sports is already paying off with consistent international success of most of our national teams".

" 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 feat", Dikko said.

The Director General of the NSC, Honourable Bukola Olopade, said this victory has once again shown the unrivalled vast potential of the Nigerian youth 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 my chairman and I 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".