{"id":72656,"date":"2025-08-10T14:28:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T14:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=72656"},"modified":"2025-08-10T14:28:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T14:28:09","slug":"fiba-afrobasket-2025-nigerias-dtigers-unveil-final-squad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/08\/10\/fiba-afrobasket-2025-nigerias-dtigers-unveil-final-squad\/","title":{"rendered":"FIBA AfroBasket 2025: Nigeria&#8217;s D&#8217;Tigers Unveil Final Squad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Njoku Chijioke<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nigeria&#8217;s men&#8217;s basketball team, the D&#8217;Tigers, has announced their final 12-man roster for the upcoming FIBA AfroBasket 2025 tournament in Angola. The squad was unveiled on Saturday, August 9, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The D&#8217;Tigers, led by interim coach Mohammed Abdulrahman, will compete in Group B alongside Tunisia, Madagascar, and Cameroon. Their campaign begins on August 13 against Madagascar, followed by matches against Tunisia on August 15 and Cameroon on August 17.<\/p>\n<p>The 31st edition of AfroBasket will be co-hosted in Namibe (group stage) and Luanda (group stage and knockout phase), Angola. The tournament runs from August 13 to 31, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The D&#8217;Tigers aim to reclaim Nigeria&#8217;s status as a dominant force in African basketball, after a disappointing exit in the 2021 tournament. The Director General of the National Sports Commission urged the team to go all out for the championship .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Njoku Chijioke Nigeria&#8217;s men&#8217;s basketball team, the D&#8217;Tigers, has announced their final 12-man roster for the upcoming FIBA AfroBasket 2025 tournament in Angola. The squad was unveiled on Saturday, August 9, 2025. The D&#8217;Tigers, led by interim coach Mohammed Abdulrahman, will compete in Group B alongside Tunisia, Madagascar, and Cameroon. Their campaign begins on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":72657,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72656","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\/72656","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=72656"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72658,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72656\/revisions\/72658"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}