Author: Brila

President FIBA Africa zone 3 Rtd. Col Samuel Ahmedu has revealed that last minutes efforts are in place to help salvage Rivers Hoopers participation at the fast approaching Afro basketball league group stage in Morocco.

Akwa United top scorer Mfon Udoh has urged fans of the Uyo based side to keep continental hopes alive with the team currently third in the group B table of the abridged NPFL and poised to make the top two positions which will qualify the team to play in the Super 4 where continental representatives will emerge.  Udoh speaking in a chat with www.brila.net said the players have a strong resolve to excel and ensure the fans are also adequately rewarded with a place on the continent at the end of the season.

Plateau United’s Beninoise import, Salomon Junior is not happy with the former Nigerian champions’ below-par performance so far in the NPFL and he made this in a chat with www.brila.net. The Squirrels of Benin Republic player noted that the abridged league season has not been going as planned for Plateau United but hopes their fortunes will improve. “It hasn’t been one our best season. We are not so happy about our overall performance this season. We are not so happy about it but I guess things like this happen in the game of football. We are hoping on the nearest future…

Coach of Nigeria’s senior men basketball national team D’Tigers Alex Nwora has blasted the Cameroon Basketball Federation (FECABASKET) after the Cameroonians expressed their displeasure on Nigeria’s poor outing at the last window of the 2019 FIBA world cup qualifiers recently concluded in Abidjan Côte d’Ivoire. THe D’tigers performance allowed Côte d’Ivoire a spot in the world cup ahead of Cameroon and insinuation of match-fixing from (FECABASKET) to Nigeria’s D’Tigers following D’Tigers defeat to Côte d’Ivoire. Nwora it was scooped by www.brila.net said the Cameroonians shouldn’t in any way blamed their world cup qualifying ouster on Nigeria and that they also had an…

Experienced Super Falcons player Faith Ikidi Michael has downplayed Nigeria’s women national team 4-1 defeat to their Austrian counterpart and urged Nigerians not to keep faith with the team notwithstanding the loss. Ikidi speaking in a chat with www.brila.net said the Nigeria women national team is still a work in progress and that now is the time to do all forms of experiments with the team in a bid to get things right at the world cup stressing that for now it shouldn’t be about result alone but about the team’s adaptation to how the coach want the team to…

Corona Basketball club of Spain and D’Tigers Point Guard Braxton Ogbueze is counting positives despite Nigeria’s disappointing outing at the final window of the just concluded 2019 FIBA world cup qualifier in Abidjan Côte d’ivoire.  Ogbueze told www.brila.net in Spain that the team shouldn’t outrightly be criticised following the below par showing but rather urged Nigerians to assess the team on the scale of their performance in the whole qualifying campaign which earned the team the best from Africa and the first qualifying nation in the world to have secured qualification even before the final window in Côte d’ivoire.

Former Captain of Nigeria’s senior national team Joseph Yobo has urged Super Eagles coach Gernot Rohr to consider experimenting with the Eagles young and fringe players in the dead rubber 2019 AFCON qualifying game. Yobo said in a chat with www.brila.net that games like this encourages players to have a sense of belonging and offer platforms to also have them showcase their talent in the national team and helps breed competition for places which is what is needed in the national team. Nigeria will be up against Seychelles as well as the international friendly against Egypt ahead the 2019…

Coach of NPFL side Kano Pillars Ibrahim Musa has revealed that Kano Pillars’ struggles this season is traceable to the fact that the team still misses the services of it former top scorer Junior Lokossa and haven’t replace him effectively yet. Musa speaking in a chat with www.brila.netsaid Pillars is a team that has seen success and would always want to be successful but need to come to reality with the fact that commensurate recruitment would have to be made in strengthening the squad before such success can be attained again.

Kano Pillars and D’Tigers player Abdu Yahaya has expressed disappointment over the withdrawal of FIBA Africa Zone 3 champion Nigeria’s Rivers Hoopers with days to the commencement of the newly introduced Afro league basketball where the team is billed to feature in the group stage in Morocco.  Yahaya who was recruited by Rivers Hoopers to help fortify the Nigeria League champion expressed disappointment in a chat with www.brila.net for the unfortunate withdrawal of the team due to lack of fund from the state Government. He revealed that it was hope and expectation dashed for the team and that also automatically…

Nigerian wrestling sensation, Odunayo Adekuoroye has declared that her success at the just concluded German Grand Prix event in Dormagen would further spur her to achieve greater success at the All Africa Games and the 2010 Olympics in Tokyo. Adekuoroye, who won a Gold Medal in the 57kg category to continue her impressive streak, told www.brila.net that she would keep up being in top shape as the 2019 All Africa Games slated for Morocco fast approaches. “I want to thank God for winning German Grand Prix and I must say with the calibre of top wrestlers I fought, I think it’s a…