Tag: basketball
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Edo Boys High School and Emotan College crowned champions of 1st Eyoto Schools Rugby Tournament
Edo Boys High School and Emotan College have been crowned the winners of the boys’ and girls’ categories of the inaugural Eyoto Schools Rugby Tournament held on Wednesday, 10th December at the grounds of Edo Boys High School, Adolor, Benin City. This achievement mirrors the success of both schools at the 4th edition of…
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Rugby takes center stage at Eyoto Championship today
By Ntiense Essien (Mr. Rugby) Tuesday was the finals of the 6th edition of the Athletics event of the Eyoto Sports Academy Championship at the Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium. The event was graced by the Edo State Sports Executive Chairman Hon. Amadin Desmond Enabulele; its Executive Director Sports Development Sabina Chikwere, the Permanent Secretary of…
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Lagos Legends are 2025 Nigeria Basketball champions, BAL reps
Lagos Legends put every game, all basics on the floor and dethroned Rivers Hoopers as Nigeria Basketball champions on their home court on Sund. November 23. They showed their readiness to be champions during the Final-8 playoffs and proved it beyond all reasonable doubts by beating the Hoopers again in the last game of the…
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Rivers Hoopers, Lagos Legends battle for trophy as NBBF Final-4 rounds off in Port Harcourt
The pursuit of the Nigeria Premier Basketball League championship/Basketball Africa League ticket will round off in Port Harcourt on Sunday, with the last tip-off for the NPBL Final Four taking place. Defending champions Rivers Hoopers and Lagos Legend will play the last march of the Playoffs and this match will determine the champions of the…
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Nigeria Premier Basketball League Final-4 tips off in Port Harcourt
The Nigeria Premier Basketball League Final Eight produced fireworks, and now, the stakes are higher, the pressure is mounting, the passion is endless, and the talent is overflowing as the final four take centre stage. With defending champions Rivers Hoopers, Gboko City Chiefs, Lagos Legends, and Nigeria Customs all vying for the coveted championship and,…
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NPBL Final-4: Odaudu excited by pressure to retain national title
Barely two days to the tip off of the 2025 Nigeria Premier Basketball League (NPBL) season finale, Rivers Hoopers Head Coach Ogoh Odaudu is relishing the challenge of chasing a third straight league title. Rivers Hoopers, who won back-to-back league titles for the third time in the club’s history by claiming the 2023 and 2024…
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Sango Warlords win Musa Kida U17 Basketball Championship
The third edition of the annual Engr. Musa Kida U17 Basketball Championship has ended in Lagos with last year’s runners-up, Sango Warlords Basketball Academy winning the male and female categories. In an entertaining final decided Saturday, November, 8 at Giants of Africa basketball court inside the Abesan Mini Stadium, Ipaja, Lagos, the Warlords who trialed…
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D’Tigress manager Rena Wakama named Hive BC head coach
The coach of Nigeria’s women’s basketball team, D’Tigress, Rena Wakama, has been named the Coach of Hive BC in the new Unrivaled Basketball League for the 2025/26 season. The appointment comes as the Nigerian coach prepares for the 2026 World Cup qualifiers with Nigeria. Unrivaled is an eight-team women’s basketball league in the United States,…
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Port Harcourt to host Nigeria’s Men’s Basketball final playoffs
Pius Ayinor Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, has been confirmed as the host city by the Nigeria Basketball Federation for the 2025 Final-8 and the Final Four Playoffs of the Nigeria Men’s Basketball Premier League. A communique from the Nigeria Basketball Federation on Monday and addressed to all clubs due to participate in the…
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NBPL: Rivers Hoopers beat Lagos Legends to stay unbeaten
Reigning Nigeria Basketball Premier League (NBPL) champions Rivers Hoopers put up a performance underlined by resilience and character, as they overturned a 4-point deficit at halftime to beat Lagos Legends 89-70 in the final game of the Atlantic Conference Phase Two. In what was essentially a battle for pride and supremacy, it was Lagos Legends…
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