As part of giving back to its immediate community, the Nigeria Basketball Federation, NBBF, will on yesterday embarked on its Community Outreach Programme with a visit to future players of the game and the less privileged in the society.

According to the president of the NBBF, Tijjani Umar, the day’s programme began with began with a visit to the current champions of the National Secondary Schools Basketball Championships, the International School, Lagos at Akoka where the students were be given career talks and other motivational addresses.

The NBBF team which included some members of the All Stars team took the students on some basketball skills as well as allow a question and answer session with them.

The Community Outreach programme also took the NBBF team to the Old People’s Home in Yaba and was later rounded off at the National Stadium in Surulere later in the day.

Niger Potters fined, warned over abandoned match

For failing to honour its Week 7 game against Gombe Bulls in Gombe on April 18, 2014, Niger Potters Basketball Club of Minna have been fined N60,000 while the match is awarded to Gombe Bulls with a warning that such should not repeat itself in their own interest.

The Nigeria Basketball Federation, NBBF stated in a letter to the club that the fine is to cover the money expended on the match officials who were on ground for the aborted match.

In acknowledging the response of Niger Potters to the federation’s query on the aborted game, the NBBF noted that while it appreciates the club’s dire financial condition as explained, “it will no longer be acceptable as a reason for not honouring matches in the future (as) we will apply the maximum penalty of relegation if this happens again.”

It would be recalled that Royal Hoopers of Port Harcourt suffered the same fate after they failed to show up for the season’s opener against Dodan Warriors in Lagos on March 7, 2014 and were subsequently walked over by the Lagos side.