Nigeria’s girls’s basketball staff, D’Tigress, are using excessive in confidence as they put together for the ultimate of the 2025 FIBA Girls’s Afrobasket Championship, and plenty of are hoping {that a} win might include a presidential splurge.
The staff booked their place within the closing after a gritty 75–68 victory over Senegal within the semi-finals. They’ll face Mali on Sunday at 7 pm WAT on the Palais des Sports activities de Treichville in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire.
D’Tigress are chasing a fifth straight title and seventh general, which might additional solidify their reign because the dominant power in African girls’s basketball.
Nonetheless, their closing hurdle is a decided Malian aspect in search of solely their second Afrobasket title and their first in almost 20 years.
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Past the trophy, attention is also focused on President Bola Tinubu, as gamers and followers alike anticipate a presidential reward much like the one just lately given to the Tremendous Falcons after their Girls’s African Cup of Nations (WAFCON) 2025 triumph in Morocco.
The Falcons were handsomely rewarded with $100,000 (roughly ₦150 million) every, whereas members of the technical crew obtained $50,000. The staff was additionally conferred with the nationwide honour of Officer of the Order of the Niger (OON) and awarded three-bedroom flats beneath the Renewed Hope Housing Scheme.
Nonetheless, the beneficiant gesture sparked widespread debate throughout the nation, with some Nigerians questioning the timing and scale of the rewards amid financial challenges. Others hailed the popularity as long-overdue appreciation for girls in sports activities.
Banking on the same final result, D’Tigress took to social media with a playful message that captured the temper in camp.
Posting a dancing meme, the staff’s official X (previously Twitter) account cheekily wrote: “Yet one more to go @afrobasketwomen Working towards $100k dance for @officialABAT”
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Yet one more to go @afrobasketwomen
Working towards $100k dance for @officialABAT pic.twitter.com/MLvZbmlEkH— DTigress (@DtigressNG) August 3, 2025
