President of the Nigeria Basketball Federation Engr. Musa Kida has stated that the Nigeria women basketball national team will follow up their recent success at the women Afrobasket by picking the ticket to play at the 2020 Olympic Games.
Kida, while speaking in a chat with Newsmen said the feat achieved by the ladies and the manner in which they got the victory in the final against host nation Senegal shows how tough D’Tigresses are and believe they will go ahead to eventually pick the ticket to play at the Tokyo games 2020 in Japan.
Nigeria are housed in group A against Mozambique and Congo DR in the Africa Pre-Qualifying tournament for the Olympics in November 2019.