Nigeria’s D’Tigress win third consecutive AfroBasket title (photos)

Nigeria’s senior women’s basketball crew, the D’Tigress have continued their domination of the game inside the continent after worthwhile their third consecutive AfroBasket Championship title.

 

D’Tigress defeated Mali 70 – 59 ultimate night to emerge champions of the 2021 AfroBasket Championship in Yaounde, Cameroon.

The Nigeria’s senior women’s basketball squad are Africa’s second most worthwhile crew behind Senegal who’ve 11 AfroBasket titles.

Nigeria has now gained the three ultimate editions hosted in Bamako (2017), Dakar (2019) and now Yaounde (2021) .

Within the meantime, Nigeria’s Sports activities actions Minister, Sunday Dare despatched congratulatory messages to the crew in Yaounde, Cameroon.

“Clearly now Nigeria’s dominance of the sport is indisputable. That’s the proof that Nigeria’s women basketball could also be ranked as a world-class programme. We have to take care of this momentum. That’s distinctive, worthwhile the Afrobasketball Championships for an unprecedented third time.

 

 

“I salute the crew(D’Tigress) for his or her expert dedication and execution. They’ve executed the nation proud and maintained the constructive outcomes we have now now achieved in sports activities actions in the last few weeks,” he well-known with pleasure.

 

The victorious crew was hosted to a dinner ultimate night by Nigeria’s ambassador to Cameroon, Ambassador Gabriel Abayomi Olorinsakin.