{"id":69130,"date":"2025-06-26T12:08:20","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T12:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=69130"},"modified":"2025-06-26T12:08:20","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T12:08:20","slug":"nbbf-unveils-dtigress-preliminary-squad-for-2025-afrobasket-title-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/06\/26\/nbbf-unveils-dtigress-preliminary-squad-for-2025-afrobasket-title-defense\/","title":{"rendered":"NBBF Unveils D\u2019Tigress Preliminary Squad for 2025 AfroBasket Title Defense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Njoku Chijioke<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Nigeria Basketball Federation (NBBF) has released the preliminary squad for D\u2019Tigress, the senior women\u2019s national basketball team, ahead of the 2025 FIBA Women\u2019s AfroBasket Championship scheduled to hold in Abidjan, C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire.<\/p>\n<p>Preparations for the tournament, set to run from July 25 to August 3, will begin immediately as the team looks to defend its continental title.<\/p>\n<p>The NBBF reaffirmed its dedication to assembling the best talents to represent Nigeria, with a clear focus on maintaining their dominance in African women\u2019s basketball and securing another AfroBasket trophy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Njoku Chijioke &nbsp; The Nigeria Basketball Federation (NBBF) has released the preliminary squad for D\u2019Tigress, the senior women\u2019s national basketball team, ahead of the 2025 FIBA Women\u2019s AfroBasket Championship scheduled to hold in Abidjan, C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire. Preparations for the tournament, set to run from July 25 to August 3, will begin immediately as the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":69131,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69130","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69130"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69132,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69130\/revisions\/69132"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}