{"id":71809,"date":"2025-07-31T13:41:23","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T13:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=71809"},"modified":"2025-07-31T13:41:23","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T13:41:23","slug":"afrobasket-2025-dtigress-to-face-cameroon-in-quarter-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/07\/31\/afrobasket-2025-dtigress-to-face-cameroon-in-quarter-finals\/","title":{"rendered":"AfroBasket 2025: D\u2019Tigress To Face Cameroon In Quarter-Finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Fakande Oluwamayowa<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Holders D\u2019Tigress of Nigeria will be up against Cameroon in the quarter-final of the ongoing 2025 FIBA AfroBasket on Thursday (today).<\/p>\n<p>The encounter will hold at the Palais Des Sports de Treichville, Abidjan, Cote d\u2019Ivoire.<br \/>\nKick-off is 10pm Nigeria time.<\/p>\n<p>Cameroon overpowered Angola 85-64 on Wednesday night to book a date with Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>D\u2019Tigress started the competition with a commanding 92-45 victory over Rwanda.<\/p>\n<p>Rena Wakama\u2019s side then laboured to a 65-50 victory over Mozambique in their second group game.<\/p>\n<p>The encounter against Cameroon will be Nigeria\u2019s biggest test yet so far at the AfroBasket 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The Central African nation were the last team to beat Nigeria at the AfroBasket, edging them 71-70 in the last four in 2015 in Yaound\u00e9.<\/p>\n<p>D\u2019Tigress are looking to make history as the first team to win five consecutive AfroBasket\u00a0women\u2019s\u00a0title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Fakande Oluwamayowa &nbsp; Holders D\u2019Tigress of Nigeria will be up against Cameroon in the quarter-final of the ongoing 2025 FIBA AfroBasket on Thursday (today). The encounter will hold at the Palais Des Sports de Treichville, Abidjan, Cote d\u2019Ivoire. Kick-off is 10pm Nigeria time. Cameroon overpowered Angola 85-64 on Wednesday night to book a date [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":71810,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71809","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\/71809","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=71809"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71811,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71809\/revisions\/71811"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}