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D’Tigers Beats Guinea, Enhances World Cup Chances

Nigeria’s D’Tigers on Saturday evening came from 11 points down to win their second match of the 2023 FIBA men’s basketball World Cup final qualifiers in Angola after overcoming Guinea in Group E.

The Nigerian men’s team had on Friday evening overcame Côte d’Ivoire in their first game of the second round of qualifiers to the FIBA World Cup in Philippine, Japan and Indonesia.

D’Tigers won the contest on Saturday 62 -59 albeit the Gunieans led at some point and seemed to be on the way to jeopardising Nigeria’s World Cup qualification hopes.

Côte d’Ivoire are already through to the this year’s World Cup to be co-hosted by Philippine, Japan and Indonesia and Nigeria are now set for a place at the World Cup if they could only claim a win over the Angolan side when they meet on Sunday night.

The D’Tigers’ team to the tournament is made up of entirely home-grown talents albeit the foreign-based lads will likely be available for the World Cup proper.

Japan, the Philippines and Indonesia will co-host World Cup, the first by any country since the start of the tournament.

Izuchukwu Okosi

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.