Nigeria get 2015 Africa U16 Championship Wild Card

The Nigerian Basketball Federation's steps to relaunch her youth programmes got a huge boost during the week following wild card invitation from the International Basketball Federation Africa (FIBA Africa) to be part of the 2015 U16 Men's and Women championship holding in July. The Nigerian U16 Women's team will participate in the final round of the 4th FIBA Africa U16 Women championship which starts from the 10th-19th July,2015 in Antananarivo, Madagascar. While their male counterparts will participate in the final round of the 5th Africa Nations Junior Championship in Bamako, Mali from 30th July-8th August,2015. The competition will consolidate the Youth development prospect camps and a chance to showcase the Nigerian basketball talents at the world stage. As the teams placed first and second in the African Championship will qualify for the FIBA U17 World championships for men and women slated for 25th June - 3rd July 2016 and 16th July - 24th 2016 respectively. The training camp for the female team will open in Abuja this June while the male time table will be announced in due course.
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