February 02, (THEWILL) – Following the end of the Nigeria Basketball Federation Elective Congress in Benin City, the NBBF’s leadership is resolved to create a domestic league structure that reflects Nigeria’s enormous potential.
Engr Musa Kida, who was unanimously elected as the NBBF’s president, said the symbolic election marks a new dawn with the domestic league at the centre of the board’s agenda, while fielding questions from journalists.
Kida, who has helped the men’s and women’s national teams become dominant forces to be reckoned with on the international stage in the previous four years, is keen to accomplish the same at home.
Making this abundantly obvious, Kida said: “My personal mantra is to make sure that since we have institutionalised in a way, we have to build structures around that to make sure that we are a sustainable entity going forward.
“One of our biggest tasks is to look at what we have done in the last four years and build upon them with a focus on the domestic scene.”
With no legal obstacles in the way of any of the domestic leagues being organised, the President stated that the board is prepared to get the Men’s and Women’s leagues up and running as soon as possible.
“We are hoping that all these stakeholders will come on board so that together we have a very enviable domestic league.”
The newly elected president expressed his thoughts on the election process by saying: “It was done according to the congress’ approved constitution by Federation of International Basketball Associations (FIBA), Nigeria Olympic Committee (NOC) and fully domiciled with the Federal Ministry of Youth and Sports. So, this gives the most positive in the history of basketball in Nigeria.”
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