Women’s basketball in Nigeria is on a winning streak: how to take it further

By Michael Gbemisola Aina, Senior Lecturer , University of Ilorin

Nigeria’s women’s basketball team, D’Tigress, won a fifth consecutive title at the 2025 FIBA Women’s AfroBasket Championship in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire on 3 August. The Conversation Africa asked Michael Gbemisola Aina, a technical commissioner of the Nigeria Basketball Federation who has researched…

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