D’Tigress players have hinged their amazing run at the 2017 FIBA Women Afrobasket on a better welfare package plan put in place by the Engineer Musa Kida-led Nigeria Basketball Federation during their preparation for the competition.
The team, who were paid their camp allowances before the commencement of the competition, acknowledged that such gesture was strange to them and which in no small way boosted their morale.
With the necessary motivation put in place, the players said are determined to go all out and do the country proud by winning the tournament and booking a ticket to the 2018 World cup in Spain.
These were the sentiments shared by RC Celta Vigo of Spainpoint guard, Sarah Ogoke, and Nkechi Akashili of Elephant Girls basketball of Lagos, after their impressive run in the group stage of the competition.
Ogoke, who was part of the 2015 Afrobasket campaign in Cameroon and the 2016 Olympic qualifiers in Nantes, France, said the D’Tigress team has never had it so good where camp allowances were paid as at when due.
She commended the new board for doing everything humanly possible to motivate the team during their camping exercise in Lagos and the prompt payment of camp allowances few days after arriving in Bamako.