The second phase of the 2024 NBBF/Zenith Bank National Women’s Basketball League dunks off on Sunday, September 22 in two centres – Enugu and Abuja respectively, with national finals scheduled to hold at the Indoor Sports Hall of the National Stadium, Surulere, Lagos between October 13 and 19.
Recall that record title holders, First Bank won all their games in the Atlantic Conference decided in Akure just as Customs Basketball team also won all their games in the Savanna Conference decided in Lafia, Nasarawa State during the Phase 1 of the competition.
The sponsors of the annual national Women’s Basketball League, Zenith Bank PLC, are delighted about the progress of the game in Nigeria especially in the women’s squad.
Zenith Bank has been the sole sponsor of the national women’s league for about two decades and the competition has produced many super stars who also developed over the years to represent Nigeria at continental and global events.
It is on record that the national Women’s team, D’Tigress has won the AfroBasket competition for four consecutive years while the team shocked the world two years ago at the basketball World Cup.
At the recently concluded Olympic Games in France, D’Tigress also showed so much guts by beating highly rated teams to earn a berth in the quarterfinal of the event. The team’s coach Rene Wakama, was named the best coach of the global event.
It is also instructive to note that Murjanatu Musa, one of the key players of the team at the Olympics in Paris was the MVP of the 2022 event of Zenith Bank’s National Women’s Basketball League.
The Group Managing Director and CEO of Zenith Bank, Adaora Umeoji, says the outfit is always delighted that the investment in basketball is fast yielding positive fruits.
Umeoji said: “We are really happy that the women’s national team, D Tigress, are catching up with the rest of the world with our products in the league as part of the success story.
“The fast growth of the game will further propel us to do more just as we are happy with the ongoing league across the country. We charge all participants to put in their best efforts so that they will also become national team stars in the near future.”
