Zenith Bank Female Basketball League: Dolphins Extend Lead, Set League Record

FIBA Africa Zone 3 champions, Dolphins Basketball Club, on Sunday continued their good run in this season’s Zenith Bank Women’s Basketball League after defeating Delta Force 79-48 in one of the Group B matches played at the Ilorin Township Stadium.

BASKETBALL: DStv Premier Basketball League Week 11 Fixtures

DStv Premier Basketball League

WEEK 11 FIXTURES

ATLANTIC CONFERENCE 

(Friday, June 12)
▪ Delta Force v Customs
▪ Dodan Warriors v Police Baton

BASKETBALL: FIBA Africa Grant Nigeria Place At U16 Women Championship

FIBA Africa has granted Nigeria a wild card to participate in the final round of the 4th FIBA Africa U16 Women Championship, according to BBall Naija.

BASKETBALL: Lagos Islanders Homecoming Game; The Evolution Was Televised

by Bball Naija

Friday, 29th May, 2015 was a very special day in the history of the Nigeria’s democracy and sports development.

The country witnessed its first switch of power from a ruling party to an opposition and the Lagos Islanders Basketball Organisation became the first private basketball club to have their home arena. The game tipped off at about 7.12pm on Friday. 

BASKETBALL: DStv Premier Basketball League Week 8 Results

DStv Premier Basketball League Week 8 Results:

ATLANTIC CONFERENCE-
Delta Force 69–73 Dodan Warriors
Kwara Falcons 69–72 Nigeria Customs
Union Bank 55–53 Police Batons
Lagos Islanders 93 – 60 Oluyole Warriors

SAVANNAH CONFERENCE-

BASKETBALL: Lagos Islanders To Play Oluyole Warriors At New Venue

DStv Premier Basketball League Atlantic Conference side Lagos Islanders will host their final four regular games of the season at their new venue, the Landmark Event Centre, Victoria Island, Lagos, the club’s management has said.

DStv/NBBF All-Star Weekend Holds Saturday

No actions this weekend in the DStv Premier Basketball League as the Dstv/NBBF All-Star Weekend is slated to tip-off in the National Stadium, Lagos.

D’Tigers Qualify For AAG, Afrobasket

Nigeria became the 13th national team to qualify for AfroBasket 2015 following a 63-50 second-leg win over Burkina Faso on Wednesday at the National Stadium in Lagos, FIBA.com reports.

Customer Experience - Is Nigerian Basketball That Sophisticated?

Written by BBall Naija

There is an African saying that if the knife is thrown up a thousand times, the handle will always hit the ground first. We cannot do things the same way over and over again and expect different results. I am beginning to think that this is one of our major problems in Nigeria sports.

Afrobasket/AAG Qualifier: D'Tigers To Face Burkina Faso Today In 2nd Leg Qualifier Match

Nigeria national Basketball team, D'Tigers will face the national basketball team of Burkina Faso in the 2nd leg of the Afrobasket and All Africa Games qualifier match on Wednesday by 6pm at the Indoor Sports Hall of the National Stadium, Surulere, Lagos.

DSTV BasketBall Premier League Week 1 Results

‪#‎DStvBBPL Week 1 Results:

Atlantic Conference-

Draw For AfroBasket 2015 Set For April 4

ABIDJAN (AfroBasket 2015) - FIBA Africa have announced that the official draw for AfroBasket 2015 will take place on Saturday 4 April at the Carthage Acropolium in Tunisia's capital city of Tunis.

Basketball: D’Tigers Blowout Kenya 83-52

The Nigeria D’Tigers defeated Kenya in a blowout win on Thursday evening 83-52 in Johannesburg at the Four Nations Challenge hosted by South Africa.

Afrobasket/AAG Qualifiers: Nigeria Humble Burkina Faso In Ouagadougou

Nigeria senior national Basketball team, D'Tigers proved on Monday night in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso that it's a force to reckon with when it come to Africa basketball when it humbled host Burkina Faso by 87-64 points in the first leg of the 29th Afrobasket and 11th All Africa Games.

Basketball: DSTV Premier League Week 1 Fixtures

Week 1 Fixtures

Friday, 20th March, 2015

ATLANTIC CONFERENCE GAMES

Support Nigerian Basketball: An Inspirational Story

I’d planned to start the day with something different but this article on Bleacher Report just won my heart over.

So this 16 year old boy wrote to all 30 teams on the NBA telling them he wants a team he can root for in the league and asking each club to give him reasons why he should choose them. In each of the letter, he mentioned a few things about the club and drew the club logo at the bottom of the letter. Read Here

Sadly, only one team replied – Minnesota Timberwolves – and they gave him 10 reasons why he should choose them, together with an autographed ball. As expected, Minnesota Timberwolves got another die-hard fan.

Three words - THIS IS SWEET!!!

The things I find impressive are:

1. The amount of knowledge the boy has about all the teams in the NBA.

2. The love people have for basketball. The young man is a basketball die-hard fan at 16. He surely didn’t get there overnight.

3. The importance that some clubs attach to fan base and fan management.

This is where I hope we will be in the future. I hope the Nigerian clubs share this big dream of mine.

Written by @BBallNaija

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We have lots of people with the love for Basketball in Nigeria but they have no means to feed their passion. Not enough websites/blogs updating the fans on basketball (even on other sports besides football). That's just one, I know you know the rest.

The sports governing bodies in the country spend too much time and money on football, which is not an issue since Nigeria was colonized by Britain and their number one sport is Football which makes it ours too (or so I think).

Basketball was invented in America. Nigerians and Nigeria will (by all means) love to be like the number one nation in the world. Our entertainment industry and politics have their signature all over them.

America is one of the world power even at our beloved football. So why do we reject their sports (Yes, SPORTS. Most Nigerians do not like American Football and Baseball also)

Well, back to basketball. Nigerians are built to play the hoops sports. We have lots of Nigerians plying their trade in the NBA and many have climbed the ladder to the apex. Akeem Olajuwon is one of the greatest Basketball player of all time. We also have Jamal Olasewere. Just to mention a minute few.

According to Wikipedia, Nigeria has produced the most NBA players of any African nation with 13 players. Check out the list here.

Nigerians, let's increase our chances of winning medals at the Olympics. Let's increase our chances of winning trophies at the continental and world level. We'll also make the whole world take the country more serious in the world of sports.

Our national basketball team, D'Tigers, are doing a great job. Nigeria is ranked 24th in the present FIBA World ranking. Imagine if Nigeria Basketball can have half the follower-ship our football has (meanwhile, we are ranked 42nd in the FIFA World ranking). Do the math! We are better off loving basketball more.

Pick a basketball team in Nigeria to support today.


SAVANNAH CONFERENCE

• Mark Mentors (Abuja)
• Bauchi Nets B.C.(Bauchi)
• Kano Pillars (basketball)(Kano)
• Immigrations (Minna)
• Plateau Peaks (Jos)
• Gombe Bulls (Gombe)
• FCT Rocks (Abuja)
• Kada Stars (Kaduna)

ATLANTIC CONFERENCE

• Oluyole Warriors (Ibadan)
• Dodan Warriors (Lagos)
• Delta Force (Delta)
• Lagos Islanders (Lagos)
• Nigeria Customs (Lagos)
• Union Bank Basketball Club
• Police Baton (Lagos)
• Kwara Falcons (Kwara)

GOMBE BULLS AND ITS JOURNEY TO STARDOM

Gombe Bulls Basket Ball team came into being in 1985 under the executive leadership of late senator Jalo Waziri of blessed memory (the then Wazirin Gombe) as the team ‘s grand patron with late Alhaji Yuguda Umar Danburam as its chairman and the technical leadership of a Cameroonian Basketball international late Muhammad Sani who was then a staff with the Bauchi state sports council posted to Gombe local government to promote Basket Ball game across primary and secondary schools.

The first inter primary schools Basket Ball competition was held at Teachers College Gombe with Gandu primary school as the pioneer champions which attracted the school a befitting basket ball court by the then Alhaji Maigari Yuguda led Gombe local government council.

Few years later the game kept improving from strength to strength through series of grass root to local basket ball competitions which provided an avenue for talents discovery of ex internationals that include the likes of Muhammad Abba a.k.a Jaggu, Musa Adamu who currently manages a senior and reputable Basket ball team in Ivory Coast as well as the one and only Icon whose names were written in gold as per as Basket Ball game is concern in Gombe state, Ibrahim Gimba alias Dogo Basket.

Having emerged champions in the Bauchi state inter local government basket ball competition in 1990, Gombe Bulls basket ball team from Gombe local government represented the then Bauchi state in the national division 2 basket ball team competition in Ibadan and won 3rd position which earned the team automatic promotion to 1st division (the then apex league status in Basket ball competition in Nigeria).

Came the subsequent year, Gombe local government could not fund the operational demands of the 1st division league, the development that paved way for the then Bauchi state government to take over the status to its darling team in the state capital, Bauchi nets basket ball team, the position the club currently still enjoys.

In the year 1991/92, The financially handicapped Gombe Bulls helplessly re competed in the 2nd division Basket Ball league in Akure and Lagos respectively under the technical supervision of late Coach Muhammad Sani and kept performing averagely, this financially challenging moment left the helpless Gombe Bulls with no option than to pay total concentration on the local competitions and talents hunt for some years which eventually led to the discoveries of more committed players that involved the likes of Kawu Abdulkadir, Abdulrahman Muhammad and Leo Kingsley among others.

1n 1996, prior to the creation of an additional state, Bauchi state hosted the national Basket Ball division 2 league and Gombe Bulls took advantage of the competition’s venue proximity to emerge 2nd position as runners up in favor of their Adamawa state counterparts which earned them another automatic elevation ticket to 1st division league.

Immediately Gombe state was created in December 1996, Gombe Bulls in 1997 represented the infant Gombe state in the division 1 first phase basket ball competition in Akure to emerge the overall winners and eventually ended up 2nd position in the second phase of the competition in Kano which earned the club an automatic promotion to the premiership league in the Nigeria Basket Ball league.

Gombe Bulls brilliant performance in the nation’s basket ball apex competition lasted only to year 2000 following a penalty measure imposed on the club by the Basket Ball league regulatory body (Nigeria Basket Ball Federation) for late league registration which prevented the team from taking part in that year’s premier league competition and resulted the relegation of the club down to 1st division league.

Since 2001, The morale and zeal for basket ball stakeholders in Gombe for nearly a decade became demoralized as a result of the neglect the game suffered by the previous governments giving priorities to other sporting games, football precisely.

In 2011, with the establishment of the Gombe state sports Commission by Ibrahim Hassan Dankwambo administration, Basket Basket ball revival process begun by the pioneer executive chairman of the Commission Malam Faruk Yarma through consultation and mobilization of stakeholders in the Basket ball game across the state and beyond which eventually augured the desired result of making the comatose Gombe Bulls an active body again.

Having successfully rebuilt the club by the Commission, Gombe Bulls took part and won the 2012 Basket Ball north east zonal competition and subsequently proceeded to represent the region at national level.

In 2012, the Gombe state sports Commission equally provided an enabling environment for the game to thrive and funded Gombe Bulls to take part in the 2nd division league in Abuja and the team’s commitment earned the club a 3rd position which elevated the jewels to play a 1st division league.

In 2013, Gombe state played a host to the 1st division Basket ball league and Gombe Bulls did not leave a single stone unturned in taking advantage of the home crowd to emerge the champions of the competition to advance to premiership.

In 2014, The Commission recruited professional players and also deployed the services of some living legends and ex internationals that made a landmark in their playing days with the club to manage its technical operation which include Abdulrahman Muhammad , Ibrahim Gimba and Kawu Abdulkadir.

These officials led the team and made it among the best four in the savannah conference, then played their four counterparts from Atlantic conference, lost the semi finals and the third place, then eventually emerged fourth in country.

The stage is now set for the 2015 Basket ball premier league and newly recruited players in the club expressed optimism to aspire for a continental ticket.

Apparently, reflecting the rise and falls of the team from the onset to its present status coupled with updates that will henceforth be coming your way on Gombe Bulls' facebook group may ginger basket ball fans across the state and even beyond to keep their fingers crossed by following the club’s day today unfolding events and in turn contribute their quota.

Thank you.

Written by Arzoo Gombe, Media Officer, Gombe Bulls Basket Ball Team.

Gombe Bulls Announce New Recruits

Gombe Bulls Basketball Team took to their facebook group to announce their newly recruited players for the 2015 season of the DSTV Basketball League.

The Bulls lost to Dodan Warriors 81-71 at the 3rd place game to finish 4th last season, and they will be looking to do way better this coming season with the new pairs of hands acquired.

List of recruited players of Gombe Bulls for 2015 DSTV Premier League:

1- Echoe Peters

2- Samson John

3- John Mathias

4- Ese Austin

5- Eli Abraham

6- Priwit Gagara

7- Gabriel Sabotage

8- Mathew Joseph

9- Manasseh Achi

10- Yakubu Istifanus

11- Mohammed Fofana

12- Dauda Ehison Uduaje

13- Kator

14- Nasiru Muh'd

15- Dahiru Ahmed

16- Adamu Ibrahim 

17- Suleiman Adamu

Meanwhile as the players gather momentum in high spirit to face the league challenges, Nigerian Basket Ball League Federation slated 13th of march 2015 for the commencement of the DSTV 2015 Premier League where Gombe Bulls kick starts its first league encounter at Home against the visiting Kada stars of Kaduna.

Dodan Warriors Final Screening On Saturday

Basketball club based in Lagos state, DODAN WARRIORS Basketball Team, will have their final screening to recruit new players on Saturday, 7th March 2015 at the Ilupeju Basketball Court, Lagos.

All talents all over the country are invited for the try-outs.

The screening is scheduled as follows:

Saturday/Sunday: ARRIVAL.
Monday: SCREENING.
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday: EXERCISE AND TEAM TRAINING.
Friday: "JUMP BALL"

Dodan Warriors Basketball Team was established in 1994, at Dodan Barracks Lagos, as a socially oriented outfit to engage youths in basketball.

Afrobasket Qualifiers: D'Tigers Wait On Burkina Faso, FIBA

The Nigeria Basketball Federation are still in the dark and uncertainty on the cancelled 2015 African Basketball Championship qualifiers match supposed to be played with Burkina Faso last weekend in Ouagadougou.

The Burkina Faso Basketball Federation cited logistics problems as a reason for the cancellation and requested both legs of the qualifiers be played in their country which NBBF rejected.

The National Basketball Team coach of Nigeria D'Tigers, Sani Ahmed, said he will make sure the administrative problems will not in any way affect his team and claims that D'Tigers are ever ready for the matches at anytime set.

According to standing FIBA rules, Burkina Faso are to forfeit the match and pay for all cost of preparing the D'Tigers for the game just as requested by the NBBF, but still waiting for a reply to mails sent to FIBA.

Countries that have already qualified for the 2015 Afrobasket are Morocco, Cape Verde, Ivory Coast, Egypt, Angola, Uganda, Tunisia and Cameroon.