Basketball
Nigeria Junior National team, The Junior Tigers have stepped up their build-up in readiness for the 8th FIBA U19 World Championship holding in Novi Sad, Serbia from July 12 to 22 with a 105-85 points win over Lagos City league All-Star team Saturday at the Indoor Hall of the Lagos national stadium.
Basketball
The coaching crew of the Nigeria Senior Men national team, D'Tigers, earlier today release the twevle man list for the 9th All Africa games starting July 11 through 23.
All African Games
After several hours of delay following unfavourable weather reports, the first batch of the 850-man contingent of Team Nigeria finally boarded a chartered Kabo Air Boeing 747 flight at about 12 noon, Friday, at the Hajj Camp of the Lagos International Airport, for Algiers, ahead of the opening of the 9th All Africa Games billed for 11 July.
