NBBF: "Lingering Court Case Delaying Progress Of The Game In Nigeria" - Kida

  NBBF: "Lingering Court Case Delaying Progress Of The Game In Nigeria" - Kida By Sampson Adedeji President of the Nigeria Basketball Federation ( NBBF) Engr Musa Kida has lamented that lingering court case is serious delaying the progress of the game in the country, BSNSports.com.ng reports. Nigeria last has organised men's basketball league in 2017 due to several court cases. Kida while speaking through the NBBF media said the adjournment every time is serious militating against the progress of Basketball, though they are organising several competitions but not all teams are partaking in it. “The Premier League is one that hurts me the most. It hurts me because as president of the NBBF, I should have a running, very robust Premier League but I don’t,” he said in the video interview. “We are legally bound and stopped from having that league. The sad part of this is that those who took us to court to stop us from undertaking that league are people who claim to have the interest of basketball at heart, all in the name of some sort of politics. You cannot claim to say you promote basketball by stopping the play of basketball at that level. “Anytime we go there (court) we see that there’s an adjournment and we think it’s a way to waste our four years. Having seen that, we organised the President Cup. Some clubs did not come but most of them participated and I personally was cited for contempt. This same people that took us to court in the first instance made a submission to the court that we were trying to circumvent the injunctions by organising the President Cup. “As the president of the NBBF, my belief is that we should have a lot of leagues, championships and competitions in the country. We should never stop the players from playing. If they have a problem, they should take me or the NBBF to court," he concluded.