{"id":3996,"date":"2023-10-31T11:38:40","date_gmt":"2023-10-31T11:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=3996"},"modified":"2023-10-31T11:38:40","modified_gmt":"2023-10-31T11:38:40","slug":"abuja-akure-to-host-2023-nbbf-conference-finals-organisers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2023\/10\/31\/abuja-akure-to-host-2023-nbbf-conference-finals-organisers\/","title":{"rendered":"Abuja, Akure to Host 2023 NBBF Conference Finals \u2013 Organisers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Abuja, the nation\u2019s capital and Akure, Ondo State capital, have been selected to host the 2023 edition of the Nigeria Basketball Federation (NBBF) conference finals in November.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The decision was announced on Tuesday by Babatunde Ogunade, Chairman of the Premier Basketball League Management Committee (PBLMC), after a meeting of the body in Lagos.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">He said Abuja would play host to the Savannah Conference final, while Akure would host the Atlantic Conference final, adding that both events would run concurrently from Nov. 4 to Nov. 12.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The top two teams at the end of each final, he said, would advance to the Final four to be staged also in November in Lagos.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Ogunade said the Nigeria Customs, Nile University, Kano Pillars, Bauchi Nets, Plateau Peaks, Gboko City Chiefs, Gombe Bulls, and the Correctional Centre would fight for the two tickets from the Savannah conference.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Rivers Hoopers, Lagos Legends, Police Batons, Delta Force, Hoops and Reads, Comets, Oluyole Warriors, and the defending champions Kwara Falcons, would slug it out for the two available slots from the Atlantic conference finals.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">He added that registration formalities for all the 16 clubs and players in the Premier League was expected to be completed on or before the conference finals dunked off on Nov. 5.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The winner of the 2023 NBBF Premier Basketball League will represent Nigeria at the 2023 Basketball African League (BAL), while the final of BAL will take place at the BK Arena in Kigali, Rwanda.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abuja, the nation\u2019s capital and Akure, Ondo State capital, have been selected to host the 2023 edition of the Nigeria Basketball Federation (NBBF) conference finals in November. The decision was announced on Tuesday by Babatunde Ogunade, Chairman of the Premier Basketball League Management Committee (PBLMC), after a meeting of the body in Lagos. He said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":3997,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,175],"tags":[59,288],"class_list":["post-3996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja-reports","category-sports","tag-featured","tag-nbbf"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3996"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3999,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3996\/revisions\/3999"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}