NBBF sad over corporate Nigeria’s neglect of D’Tigress

The females’s national basketball team, D’Tigress, deserves extra from corporate Nigeria of their march to express glory to the country, the Nigeria Basketball Federation (NBBF) has acknowledged.    The NBBF expressed disappointment that despite the laudable achievements of the team, that are acknowledged internationally, getting quality sponsorship for the team has remained very no longer easy.   The Chairman of the NBBF Marketing Committee, Ugo Udezue, notorious at the weekend that the federation is “deeply saddened by the map in which organisations in Nigeria treat the females’s team.”   He acknowledged: “Let’s transfer over to soccer first as I mediate this might possibly serve us to worth the declare better. The Mountainous Falcons are the most mighty soccer team in Nigeria, however possess they derive valid-time sponsorship? The answer is never any, as all of us know the company world tilts exceptionally in direction of men.   “That is the case with D’Tigress, and right here's even worse than imagined. At any time when these ladies folk step out for a contest, they always go there with a document. They've executed effectively on the continent and at the sector stage. Let’s assessment their efficiency final year at the Olympics against the sector’s greats. They done effectively to the enjoyment of Nigerians, however mild, you've got to withhold introducing them to the company world appreciate they're novices.   “No, these are achievers. The finest thing standing against them is that they're ladies folk, and in addition they're a chunk of the so-known as lesser sports activities in Nigeria.”   Udezue, who is additionally the CEO of AFA Sports, however, has proper phrases for those that have long past the additional mile to form Nigerian ladies folk smile.   “On that show off, we can by no map have as a right a company appreciate Zenith Monetary institution. They've been sponsors of females’s basketball in Nigeria for bigger than twenty years. That's awesome. And they're joyful doing it.”   Praying that issues would change for the upper, Udezue acknowledged: “I became so joyful with the efficiency of our ladies folk (D’Tigress) at the Olympics. I became no longer handiest angry by how shut they had been to getting a medal however I became definite they'd marketed themselves to corporate Nigeria very effectively. Nonetheless right here we're.   “D’Tigress team is a stamp. I query sponsors to crawl them and no longer the assorted device. I dazzling hope that one day, some folks will look this team with the valid viewpoint.”   On the “Homecoming Tournament” in Abuja that comprises D’Tigress against Togo, Kenya, and a few diverse top African teams, Udezue acknowledged that the event is deeply faced with sponsorship apathy despite huge efforts to salvage the needed funds.   Lamenting that it became simpler for the federation to salvage funds for the men’s competitors held two years in the past at the Eko Hotel in Lagos, “when the men have not any longer done a quarter of the ladies folk’ efficiency.”