Basketball Federation sacks coaches, appoints new ones

THE Nigeria Basketball Federation has announced slight changes to the coaching crew of the senior men and women’s national teams with immediate effect.

The Engineer Musa Kidaled board took the decision after the review of the national teams activities recently.

For D’tigers, Dominic Okon and Ogoh Odaudu have been appointed to replace Abdulrahman Mohammed and Aderemi Adewunmi who until now were assistant coaches to Alex Nwora.

Dominic Okon, a former Ebun Comet player was part of the D’tigers team that qualified Nigeria for the first ever FIBA Men World Cup in 1998 and currently an assistant coach with Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas.

Ogoh on his part played for Zuma Rocks of Abuja before moving to Dodan Warriors, and later to Ebun Comets.

He was a member of the D’tigers silver winning medal team at the 2003 FIBA Afrobasket in Egypt.

The experienced coach has also had stints with Lagos Islanders basketball club (2003) before moving to Royal Hoopers (now Rivers Hoopers) of Port Harcourt where he led the team to national league glory in 2011 and 2012 season.

For the women, former D’tigress captain and current First Deepwater Basketball club of Lagos coach, Sola Shomala has been named as replacement for Ochuko Okworogun.