Basketball in Africa

Head Coach of the nigerian U19 national women team, Adewumi Aderemi is expected to defend the programme he submitted to the technical committee of the Nigeria Basketball Federation, NBBF ahead the 2011 FIBA World U19 Championship for Women holding in Chile.

The technical committee is said to be satisfied with the programme put forward by Coach Aderemi and have recommended that the NBBF hold a final discussion with the women cadet coach on ways of successful implementation of the programme.

Nigeria bagged one of the ticket to represent Africa at the FIBA World U19 Championship slated for South Africa nation – Chile in July this year after finishing second behind Egypt at the FIBA Africa Championship for U18 Women held in Cairo, Egypt in 2010.