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The
board of the Nigeria Basketball Federation, NBBF, will hold an
extra-ordinary board meeting on Thursday, October 21, from 10.00 am at
the federation Secretariat at the Park-B section of the Abuja National
Stadium.

The meeting is
expected to amongst other things discuss the issue of the age scandal
that rocked the Nigerian team to the just concluded Afro-basket
tournament in Kigali, Rwanda.

A Nigerian player,
Godfrey, Moses was sanctioned over allegations of age falsification
which in turn caused the country’s junior basket ball team, the Junior
Tigers a shot at one of the available tickets to next year’s World
Championships in Latvia.

According to a
press release from the federation’s media officer, Segun Ikuesan, the
meeting will also try to chart a new course for the game in Nigeria.

“The meeting will
discuss the state of the game in our land and proffer solutions on how
best to continue to raise the stake of the game in Nigeria,” it read.

To chair the
Extra-ordinary board meeting is the President of the Federation and 3rd
Vice-President of the Nigeria Olympic Committee, Tijjani Umar.

Going all the way

On the age scandal,
Umar said the federation will go all the way to uncover whosoever was
behind the incident and also bring such people to book.

“We are not taking
basketball as a do or die affair and we will never be involved in any
incidence of cheating, but whoever is behind this will be uncovered and
punished. The coaches would also be queried when the team return from
Rwanda.

“We are also going
to take a step to involve the National Sports Commission in the whole
thing because a time has come for everyone involved in sports to do
things the right way,” he said.

Before Thursday’s Extra-ordinary board meeting there will be a meeting of the League Board on Wednesday also in Abuja.

The League Board
will give their report of the last DStv Premier League season which was
won by Kano Pillars and will ratify that date for the commencement of
the 2010/11 season.

The League Board Meeting will be chaired by Adamu Khaleh, who is also the Head of the federation Technical Committee.