The Nigerian males’s basketball workforce (D’Tigers) has introduced their forceful withdrawal from the upcoming AfroBasket qualifiers because of the lack of funds and help from the federal government.
D’Tigers via their official social media platform confirmed that the workforce won’t be that includes within the extremely anticipated AfroBasket qualifiers which is able to begin in February 2024, to establish the African international locations that can function on the FIBA Afrobasket event in 2025.
Early experiences had initially indicated that D’Tigers had did not safe tickets for his or her flight at the moment, Wednesday, February 21, 2024, forward of the competitors, preliminary hopes had many speculating that the workforce may obtain the help within the closing minutes however the assertion launched now signifies that D’Tigers wouldn’t be collaborating within the competitors in any respect.
This may be an enormous blow to the sport of basketball in Nigeria as this factors in direction of the path of lack of curiosity by the ministry of sport in different sport actions apart from soccer and it additionally raises concern as to if Nigeria shall be correctly represented on the Olympics 2024 in Paris.
Regardless of a number of 2020 Olympians committing, D’Tigers will forfeit this AfroBasket Qualifers window as a consequence of lack of funds from authorities. pic.twitter.com/O5hZFX2b8V
— D’Tigers | Nigeria Basketball (@NigeriaBasket) February 21, 2024
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