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For the start of the 2023 Women’s Basketball season, the Nigeria Basketball Federation (NBBF) has invited 32 teams to be part of the elimination tournament. This was contained in a statement released by the federation in which they listed the names of all the invited teams. According to the release 16 teams – 8 from each conference – will qualify Read More

Some Basketball Stakeholders have called on basketball governing body, FIBA, Ministry of Youths and Sports Development and other key stakeholders to come together and draft a new credible constitution for the federation for the game to grow in the country. Briefing the media, Thursday, in Abuja, the Spokeperson of the group and Kaduna state Basketball Association chairman, Pastor Scambo Morrisson, Read More

Sponsor of Mark D Ball Championship, Mr. Igoche Mark, has said he remains the authentic President of the Nigeria Basketball Federation (NBBF), following the Sports Ministry’s dissolution of the Interim Management Committee (IMC), a body inaugurated by the Minister, Sunday Dare. In a statement in Abuja on Friday, Mark said, “Let me mention here that for any election to be Read More

Stakeholders of Basketball in Nigeria have facilitated with the President of the Nigeria Basketball Federation (NBBF), Mr.Igoche Mark, as he turned a year old on Tuesday June 28, 2022. Mark who recently gave a new face to demostic basketball in Nigeria, through his pet project, “Mark D Ball” Basketball Championship, recieved commendations from stakeholders for his impactful programmes. In his Read More

President of the Nigeria Basketball Federation (NBBF), Mr. Igoche Mark, has welcomed President Muhammadu Buhari’s decision to rescind his earlier directive on Nigeria’s withdrawal from international basketball, for two years, few days after a declaration by the Ministry of Youth and Sports Development. Reacting via a statement to Thursday June 23, 2022 announcement which reversed Nigeria’s self imposed ban from Read More

The Pro- NBBF campaigners have tried endlessly, to paint the sports ministry in bad light while also trying to gather enough support and sympathy for the NBBF Board rendered redundant by the recent decision of the Sports ministry to withdraw Nigeria from all international competitions for atleast two years. Unlike in the past when these men would easily have accused Read More

The President of the Nigeria Basketball Federation NBBF, Mr. Igoche Mark, has felicitated with board member and technical representative coach Scot Nnaji as he clocks 60. Mark in a statement, Tuesday, extolled the qualities and technical know how of Coach Nnaji which the NBBF President believes has made him to be counted among the best. “Let me use this medium to Read More

The President of the Nigeria Basketball Federation (NBBF), Mr. Igoche Mark, has called on  Basketball players group, under the aegis of Concerned Progressive Ballers (CPB), to observe maximum restraint, and call off their plan to hit the streets of Abuja this week. According to Mr. Mark, the NBBF was reliably informed by impeccable sources, that the players have vowed to Read More

The Nigeria Basketball Federation (NBBF) led by Mr. Igoche Mark has revealed that its Secretary was yet to make available details of bonuses and allowances owed D’Tigress. This was disclosed in a communique issued at the end of an emergency meeting attended by all NBBF board members in Abuja on Friday April 8, 2022. According to the Communique, the board Read More

The President of the Nigeria Basketball Federation (NBBF), Mr.Igoche Mark, has commiserated with the Players Representative of the board, Mr Stanley Gumut, over the demise of his father, late elder Abraham Useni Gumut. The NBBF President in a telephone chat with the Gumuts, prayed God to accept the soul of the departed, the fortitude for the family to bear the Read More

International Basketball Federation (FIBA) has confirmed the Ahmadu Musa Kida led Nigeria Basketball Federation (NBBF) Executive Board election held on the January 31, 2022 in Benin City, Edo State. FIBA on Monday March 7, 2022 congratulated the NBBF president Mr. Ahmadu Musa Kida on his election held at the NBBF 2022 Elective Congress in Benin City, Nigeria. They acknowledged the Read More

The President of the Nigeria Basketball Federation NNBF, Mr.Igoche Mark, is excited about the current waves of basketball games being witnessed across the domestic scene in Nigeria. Mark disclosed this on Thursday at the ongoing Mark D Championship holding at the MKO Abiola stadium Abuja. He attributed the revival of domestic basketball to the movement championed by the New Face Read More

The President of the Nigeria Basketball Federation (NBBF), Mr Igoche Mark, has again saluted the astounding performance of Nigeria’s senior Women Basketball Team, D’Tigress, after they defeated Mali 73-69 on Sunday at the ongoing FIBA Women World Cup qualifiers in Serbia. The ladies wasted no time in the game as they dominated in all the quarters. Saluting the African Champions, Read More

The President of the Nigeria Basketball Federation (NBBF), Mr. Igoche Mark, has congratulated the D’Tigress over their 67-65 victory against France at the ongoing FIBA Women’s World Cup qualifier in Serbia. The keenly contested game saw the Nigerian ladies overcoming a 17 points deficit during the first quarter of the game. Congratulating the ladies, Mark said the team showed the true Read More

President of the Nigeria Basketball Federation NBBF, Mr. Igoche Mark, has hailed the heroic display of the nation’s senior women Basketball team, D’Tigress, and the team’s coaching crew in their first game against the Peoples Republic of China at the ongoing FIBA Women’s World Cup qualifiers in Belgrade, Serbia. The reigning African Champions lost 76- 90 to the Asian giants, Read More

All is now set for this year’s Mark D Ball Basketball Championship, the Men’s version comprising of 24 teams will dunk off on Sunday, February 6, 2022 at the Indoor Sports Hall, located inside Package B of the Moshood Abiola National Stadium Abuja. The event was pushed forward by a few days, due to the usage of the venue for Read More

All is now set for this year’s Mark D Ball Basketball Championship, the Men’s version comprising of 24 teams will dunk off on Sunday, February 6, 2022 at the Indoor Sports Hall, located inside Package B of the Moshood Abiola National Stadium Abuja. The event was pushed forward by a few days, due to the usage of the venue for Read More