Sports Minister and Chairman, National Sports Commission, Dr. Tammy Danagogo has commended both the Flying Eagles and the National Men’s Basketball team, D’Tigers

Tammy Danagogo

for their performances last weekend, stressing that Nigerians are proud of them.

The Flying Eagles emerged champions of the just concluded African Youth Championship in Dakar, Senegal beating the host 1-0 in the final to clinch their seventh title in the competition while the basketball team led by Olumide Oyedeji were winners of the 4-Nations Invitational tournament in South Africa.

“The victories posted by our teams have proved that talents abound in our country and if properly harnessed and given adequate preparation and support, they will always conquer like our Flying Eagles and the Men’s basketball team showed in Senegal and South Africa respectively at the weekend,” Dr. Danagogo said.

“That our basketball team also went to South Africa and won all the matches they played to emerge winners, a few days after beating their host, Burkina Faso in Ouagadougou in the Afrobasket/All Africa Games qualifier shows that they are a force to reckon with and are ready, not only to defend their All Africa Games title but take a shot at the Afrobasket title in Tunisia this year,” he stressed.