Basketball: US-Based Nwora Appointed As New D’Tigers Coach Ahead Of Afrobasket

The Nigeria Basketball Federation (NBBF) has appointed United States of America based Nigerian, Alex Nwora, as the new national men’s basketball team D’Tigers head coach ahead of the men’s Afrobasket Championship in Tunisia and Senegal in September.

This was announced by the President of Nigeria Basketball Federation, Engineer Musa Kida, on Wednesday.

The NBBF Chief said the decision to employ Nwora was borne out of the desire to give qualified Nigerians the opportunity of making history with the national team.

“We started this project with the D’Tigress with the appointment of Sam Vincent, Mfon Udoka, Peter Ahmedu and Okworogun Ochuko.

“There is no point giving out national team jobs to expatriates when we have Nigerians all over the world, who are duly qualified to get the job done,” he said.

Kida called on Nigerians particularly basketball stakeholders to support the coach in his bid to lead D’Tigers to their title defence at the Afrobasket for men in Tunisia.

It would be recalled that the newly appointed coach tutored Cape Verde in the 2013 edition of the Afrobasket Championship held in Cote d’Ívoire, where the island nation defeated D’Tigers by 79 points to 76.

Nwora will be assisted by Kwara Falcons head coach, Aderemi Adewunmi, and Gombe Bulls’ Abdulrahman Mohammed who have both guided their teams to the top of the Atlantic and Savannah Conferences of the NBBF-organized basketball league.