Oderah Chidom says her D’Tigress career is over, accusing the Nigeria Basketball Federation (NBBF) of lacking professionalism.

Chidom a key member of the Nigeria’s senior women basketball team, in a chat with ESPN is furious with the Federation for leaving most of the players in the dark after the withdrawal from the FIBA Women’s World Cup.​

“I have been blessed to play with a lot of teams where I have seen professionalism from management, and I don’t see those same qualities within our own federation. So to continuously keep coming back to a federation that I feel does not value me is not worth it.

“I am officially done with national team. I cannot continue to have this added stress in my life. As a team, we try to choose our words very carefully so we do not offend anyone on the federation.

“But personally, I’m done and my purpose of doing this is to shed light on the lack of professionalism within the Federation and that it needs to change.

“It’s really difficult to not have any sense of communication, not have any sense of professionalism. All of our information comes from Twitter and social media.

“We never know what’s going on. We ask a lot of questions about just simple things of when camp is, where it will be held, who are the coaches, and we get responses like ‘please be patient’.

“Everything that we do is super last minute. The level of professionalism is just not up to par with the constant production that we
produce.”​

Chidom, however, also refuted the claims that D’tigress are going to boycott the upcoming AfroBasket Championship.

“We’re not boycotting anything. We weren’t even been invited. No-one’s communicating with us at all. So, it’s frustrating. Of course, I would love to continue to play for something that’s bigger than myself and represent my country,” Chidom added.

“That means so much to me and my family. But the current federation, I just cannot continue to agree with the way they do business.

“A lot of us have all sent the post around. And pretty much all of us are disappointed and upset with the lack of communication.

“I genuinely don’t know what the other girls are intending to do, but I know that there’s a general sense of frustration and disappointment throughout the entire team, considering that no-one has spoken to us.”

Chidom won the women’s AfroBasket Championship with D’tigress.