NBBF Ready To Give Nigeria Best At The Olympics Games - Ahmedu

  NBBF Ready To Give Nigeria Best At The Olympics Games - Ahmedu By Sampson Adedeji Member of Nigeria Basketball Federation (NBBF), Sam Ahmedu, has confirmed that the body is ready to go all out to ensure that the game get to the highest level in the country, BSNSports.com.ng reports. Despite the domestic leagues in comatose, both male and female teams were able to secure their place in the upcoming Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. He assured that the body will take welfare of players and technical staff into serious considerations. "Getting to the apex of basketball in Africa and rolling with the best in the world never came by accident. It’s a result of deliberate plans and heavy investments in camps, coaches and training.” We hosted Africa in 2018 and 2019 during the qualifiers for the 2019 FIBA World Cup in China which Nigeria was the first team in the world to qualify for and it never came cheap”. “In the history of basketball in Nigeria, no board has spent quality time preparing for the championships and World Cups like we did. “We achieved so much at the 2017 and 2019 FIBA Afrobaskets, and hosting the FIBA World Cup qualification series as well as the FIBA World Cups in Spain and China. “This would never have been possible but for the efforts we put and huge money spent in achieving good results,’’ Ahmedu, who is also the Chairman of the Benue basketball association, said through social media handle of the federation.