Lagos teams settle for national stadium

The Nigeria Basketball Federation,NBBF, has fixed next Friday as jump-ball date for the 2009/ 2010 basketball season.

The announcement was made after a delegation of the Nigeria basketball ruling body led by the president; Tijjani Umar held a crucial meeting with Lagos-based team owners at the media centre of the national stadium, Lagos last Friday.

The NBBF team which also include the federation 1st Vive-President, Muktar Khaleh and other basketball bigwigs and representatives of the sponsor Multichoice owners of DSTV inspected facilities at the national stadium, University of Lagos Sports Centre and the Rowe Park Sports Centre.

Though the inspection team certifies all the venues visited as meeting the requirement to host games, but all the teams’ owners and representatives unanimously agreed to continue to use the Indoor Hall of the National Stadium, Lagos as their home venue for the present season.

With the agreement by Lagos-based teams to use the national stadium as home venue for their league games, the number of venues that would be used for this season comes to nine scattered across seven states of the nation.

Lagos teams Ebum Comets, Customs, Dodan Warriors, Islanders, Police Batons and Union Bank will amke use of the national stadium, Surulere.

sports hall of Asaba Township stadium,Delta State will accomodate Delta Force and Civic Centre Port Harcourt, Rivers State (Royal Hoopers) for team in Atlantic conference.

Teams in the Savannah conference will have their games in Sports Hall of the Sani Abacha Stadium (Kano Pillars and AHIP).

Kada Stars will have its home games at the sports hall of the Murtala Mohammed Square , Kaduna.

Plateau Peaks and Tapgun Rockets will play their home games at the sports hall of the Ahmadu Bello Stadium, Kaduna State as the NBBF rule out the Jos stadium.

Niger Potters still retain its Minna, Niger State base just as Bauchi Net and Yelwa Hawks will have their home games at the Multi-purpose hall and the newly refurbished National Sports Commission gymnasium.


Meanwhile,in a bid to make the Nigeria league more vibrant, the Nigeria Basketball federation has set-up an 11-man league board to over see the running of the league.

The body is made up of NBBF 1st Vice-President Muktar Khaleh as chairman, representative of the sponsor, Dodan Warriors basketball club owner Colonel Sam Ahmedu representing teams in the Atlantic Conference, owner of Yelwa Hawks’s basketball club, Hon. Tanko Dutse representing teams in the Savannah conference.

Other members of the league board include president of the referee council, president of the Coaches Association, Brigadier General Saleh Bala, Datty Aminu, Deji Jaiyeola, Agboola Pinheiro with Secretary General of the NBBF, Francis Gbiri as Secretary.

The body will be inaugurated by the NBBF president this week and they are expected to begin work immediately.


The Lagos State Basketball Association, LSBBA will Tuesday hold an important stakeholders meeting of all interest group for the benefit of the slamming and dunking game in the Centre of Excellence.

The One-Day meeting billed for the Teslim Balogun Stadium, Surulere will also have the Honourable Commissioner for Youth Sports & Social Development in the state, Prince Ademola Adeniji-Adele in attendance.

According to the chairman of the state basketball association, Babs Ogunade, the main crux of the meeting is grassroot basketball development across the state and the Lagos City League.