The contingent of players and officials of the Nigerian senior men’s national team, the D’Tigers will leave the shores of the country on Friday, March aboard ASKY Air from the Nnamdi Azikiwe Airport in Abuja for the 1st leg of their FIBA Africa Basketball championship qualifiers in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.
The qualifier which doubles as the qualifiers for the All African Games in Congo Brazzerville later this year will see the D’Tigers take on the Burkinabes’ on Monday, March 16 before coming back home for the return leg on March 25 according to the FIBA Africa secretariat qualifiers schedule release.
The team strength has however been boosted for the make or mere double header by the arrival of the foreign based duo of Ejike Ugboaja, who remains the 1st and only Nigerian to be drafted by the National Basketball Association (NBA) directly from the Nigerian Premier Basketball league in 2006 and veteran captain Olumide Oyedeji who currently stars for the London Lions in the UK.
The team and officials will however have a media chat with press men this evening before boarding the Asky Airline early tomorrow morning.