Izuchukwu OkosiNigeria’s men’s basketball national team D’Tigers on Thursday succumbed to a 74-72 defeat of AfroCan current champions DR Congo in the quarterfinals of the tournament.
The tournament is played by players on tkskr domestic leagues across the African continent.
The team had on Wednesday beaten Gabon, 71-55, to bounce back to winning was at the AfroCan Championship in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire and set up the clash against DR Congo.
The team won against Mali in their first match but Angola overcame the D’Tigers in their second match.
The Nigerian side was hurriedly assembled barely two weeks to the start of the tournament.
The team will face another opposition for the Classification game to determine the 6th and 7th place side.
Izuchukwu Okosi is a Nigerian sports and entertainment journalist with two decades of experience in the media industry having begun his media journey in 2002 as an intern at Mundial Sports International (MSI) and Africa Independent Television (AIT), owners of Daar Communications Plc.
In October 2004, Okosi joined Complete Communications Limited, publishers of Complete Sports newspaper and Complete Football magazine as a reporter and later script writer for the Complete Sports studio.
He worked there for 13 years until October 2017.
Okosi also worked various times as Correspondent, Content creator and Editor at Sports Market International Magazine, Opera News, All Nigeria Soccer Media and Iconic Media Watch.
He also undertook freelance writing gigs for some local and international organizations.
Okosi is a member of the Actors Guild of Nigeria (AGN), Association of Movie Producers (AMP), Association of Voiceover Artistes of Nigeria (AVOA), Sports Writers Association of Nigeria (SWAN) and Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ).
He has been part of cast in some Nollywood movies and radio dramas including Blood Money 2, Scores To Settle, Dead End 2, Another Campus Tale and Battle Line.
Aside mainstream media and the entertainment industry, he has interests in scouting/unearthing of talents in the sports and creative sectors, exports business and property development.
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