By Our Reporter
THE 2019 domestic basketball
season in Nigeria will start in April with the stakeholders meeting, Congress
and Annual General Meeting.
According to the Nigeria Basketball Federation (NBBF)
President, Engr. Musa Kida, the meeting with stakeholders will review the
achievements recorded so far.
“We shall start with the
stakeholders forum and at the same time hold the congress and our Annual
General Meeting to look at the last one and half years, review it to see the
progress we have made so far, areas of concern, where we need to improve on
while also listening to the stakeholders.
“Our congress should be able
to validate what it is that we have done so far”, Kida continued.
He revealed that the
Congress shall pave way for the commencement of the much anticipated Total Men’s
Division 2 League and the Zenith Women’s League amongst other domestic programs
of the federation.
“As you know last year,
Total Men’s Division 2 was very well attended and we had over 70 teams
participating in the first stage” (state level).
He took pride in what the
federation has been able to achieve on the home front since coming on board
while assuring that more teams are expected to participate in the expanded
Total Men’s Division 1 League.
“We have some teams that
have also qualified from Division 2 to Division 1. Total Division 1 is going to
be more elaborate especially with this expanded format.”
With definite dates already
proposed for the various leagues, the NBBF president stressed that the domestic
leagues will run over longer period than the 2018 season.
This he said is important to
give the leagues needed visibility, coverage and afford players more games.
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