{"id":64748,"date":"2025-04-24T12:16:59","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T12:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=64748"},"modified":"2025-04-24T12:16:59","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T12:16:59","slug":"dtigress-land-mozambique-and-rwanda-in-afrobasket-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/04\/24\/dtigress-land-mozambique-and-rwanda-in-afrobasket-group\/","title":{"rendered":"D\u2019Tigress Land Mozambique and Rwanda in AfroBasket Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Oluwamayowa Fakande<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Nigeria\u2019s women basketball team, D\u2019Tigress, will square off against Mozambique and Rwanda in Group D of the 2025 AfroBasket Championship.<\/p>\n<p>The draw, confirmed ahead of the continental showpiece, sets the stage for a thrilling campaign as D\u2019Tigress aim for a record extending seventh African title.<\/p>\n<p>The tournament will be hosted by Cote d\u2019Ivoire from July 26 to August 3 at the iconic Palais des Sports de Treichville.<\/p>\n<p>Fresh from an inspiring quarter-final run at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, the Nigerian side enters the championship with strong momentum and title ambitions.<\/p>\n<p>Host nation Cote d\u2019Ivoire face a challenging group alongside Angola and Egypt, while Group B pits Mali against Cameroon and South Sudan. Group C features Senegal, Uganda and Guinea.<\/p>\n<p>With the draw now complete, the path to African basketball glory has been drawn, and D\u2019Tigress are ready to rise once again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Oluwamayowa Fakande Nigeria\u2019s women basketball team, D\u2019Tigress, will square off against Mozambique and Rwanda in Group D of the 2025 AfroBasket Championship. The draw, confirmed ahead of the continental showpiece, sets the stage for a thrilling campaign as D\u2019Tigress aim for a record extending seventh African title. The tournament will be hosted by Cote [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":64749,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64748","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\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64748"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64750,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64748\/revisions\/64750"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}