Meanwhile, D’Tigress will play their second first round group match on Saturday against Kenya, who had on Friday lost 39-61 to Cameroon
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Bakare, who qualified the team for their first ever Olympics in 2012, charged the players to put in their best as they begin the campaign for the title they have never won in the competition’s history, against Mali on Wednesday
The training camp was earlier scheduled to open in Abuja on August.
Omorodion said: “The situation is not peculiar to the federation as other African countries with players in American schools and International Clubs are also affected