Izuchukwu OkosiNigeria’s men’s basketball national team, D’Tigers on Saturday evening won their second game in the Window 4 of African qualifiers to the 2023 FIBA Men’s World Cup with a 89-70 win over Guinea reports Prime Business Africa.
D’Tigers won the first quarter 24-15 but both sides ended the second quarter 20-20.
It was Nigeria who claimed the third quarter by 32-15 but the Guineans was the slightly better team in the fourth and last quarter with a 20-13 win.
The Nigerian men on Friday lost 78-66 to Cote d’Ivoire in their first game of the round.
D’Tigers will face an herculean task when they play one of the best sides on the African continent, Angola on Sunday who defeated Cape Verde 65-58 on Saturday.
The last window for the qualifiers to the 2023 FIBA Men’s World Cup will open in February 2023 with the top two teams automatically picking up tickets to the World Cup.
Nigeria’s women’s team will not take part in this year’s World Cup following the decision of the Federal Ministry of Youth and Sports Development to withdraw D’Tigress from the World Cup which begins in September.
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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