Alex Nwora, the head coach of the senior national basketball team, D’Tigers, on Sunday said his team was focused on beating all contenders at the ongoing 2019 FIBA Africa World Cup Qualifiers in Lagos.
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Okoye said he is back on a mission to prove his worth and importance to the team.
With less than 24 hours to the start of the 2019 FIBA World Cup qualifiers on Friday in Lagos, the camp of the D’Tigers is buzzing with positive energy and optimism ahead of their opening game.
Ugbade made this known to the News Agency of Nigeria on telephone from Niamey, venue of the ongoing 2018 WAFU Zone B qualifiers for the Africa U-17 Cup of Nations.
Nigeria U17 came back from the brink of a humiliating defeat to Burkina Faso as they spanked Cote d’Ivoire 5-1 on Thursday evening.
The wife of former President Laurent Gbagbo, whose refusal to accept electoral defeat triggered the war, walked out of Abidjan’s Ecole de Gendarmerie in which she had been detained since 2013.
The Gazelle helicopter came down about 20 km east of the Côte d’Ivorian commercial capital, Abidjan.
Dr Victor Oladokun, AfDB Director, Communication and Media Relations, disclosed this on Wednesday while welcoming African Journalists on a Media Tour to Saemaul Undong Model village project, in Yamoussoukro, Cote d’Ivoire.
The board’s Head of Media and Information Department, Dr Fabian Benjamin, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Sunday in Lagos.
The Eaglets will thus have to first slug it out of their West African zone, which has dominated this age-grade with the likes of Ghana, Cote d’Ivoire even holding their own at the world stage.
The Manchester City midfielder made a surprise announcement in December of a return in spite of the Ivorians having failed to qualify for the World Cup in Russia.
Toure who will turn 35 in May has shunned internationals since leading the Ivorians to the African Nations Cup title in early 2015.
Long considered a backwater, Africa has emerged as the world’s No. 2 banking market in terms of both growth and profitability.
The eight-time African champions’ march to the final was halted by Ghana’s Black Queens on Thursday, after the Queens prevailed through the lottery of penalty shootout following an entertaining 1-1 draw at the Treichville Stadium.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the Falcons are in the West African country for the 2018 WAFU Cup of Nations tournament which begins on Wednesday.
The list, which also has veterans Joy Jegede and Mariam Ibrahim as well as junior internationals Gift Monday, Anam Imo and Mary Ologbosere, was released less than 24 hours after the unveiling in Abuja of new Super Falcons’ Head Coach, Thomas Dennerby.
Addo made the disclosure while giving evidence as the third prosecution witness in a murder case filed against Kenechi by the Lagos State Government.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the home-based Super Eagles will begin their CHAN campaign against Rwanda on Monday
Africa’s fastest growing economy in 2016, Côte d’Ivoire was hit earlier this year by successive uprisings by low-ranking troops.
President Buhari was in Cote d’Ivoire for the just ended 5th African Union-European Union Summit, which took place from November 28 to 30, 2017. Buhari had entered the Sofitel Hotel venue of the conference from around 9am on Wednesday, the day the conference officially opened. And about midnight, precisely 12.26am, that is Thursday morning, the President was still on his feet. This writer saw him coming out of a dinner hosted by Ivorian President Alassane Quattara and his wife in honour of visiting heads of state and government and other heads of delegation, and entering into another round of meeting for multilateral talks with some heads of state at past midnight.