NBBF tells basketball clubs to expect new season schedule

FOLLOWING the recent lifting of restrictions on contact sports by the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19, Nigerian basketball clubs have been advised to get ready for the new season.

In a letter addressed to the State Basketball Association Chairmen as well as the Premier League clubs, Zenith Women Basketball clubs, Total Division 1 and 2 clubs, the Secretary General of the Nigeria Basketball Federation, Bisi Afolabi-Oluwayemi, announced that the new season would start soon.

The memo reads in part, “I am directed to inform you that following the reduction in the number of COVID-19 infections in Nigeria and the go ahead from the Federal Ministry of Youth and Sports for the resumption of contact sports based on the approval of the NCDC, the NBBF is set to resume its competitions.

“To this end, a new schedule of activities will be released shortly. All concerned are requested to note so as not to be taken unawares when new competition dates and guidelines are announced.”

The NBBF noted that itappreciated the patience and understanding of stakeholders especially during the period of non-sporting activities occassioned by the pandemic. 

All sporting activities were put on hold for five months in a bid to contain the spread of the highly contagious coronavirus, which has claimed hundreds of thousands of lives across the world.