Zenith Bank Female Basketball league: NBBF threatens to take disciplinary action on three clubs

With the first phase of the Zenith Bank Female Basketball league ongoing at the national stadium in Abuja, the board of the Nigerian Basketball Federation (NBBF) sat on Sunday to address major issues brought forward by the technical committee as regards the
national domestic leagues and the national team programmes, with far reaching decisions made and some already being implemented.
The Nigerian Basketball Federation has threatened to take disciplinary action on three clubs for various offences ranging from their failure to pay their players bringing the game into disrepute. Following a comprehensive meeting regarding the ongoing DStv Premier Basketball League and the Zenith Bank Basketball League on Sunday in Abuja, the NBBF board agreed to take disciplinary action against DStv Premier League teams, Oluyole Warriors of Ibadan and Kada Stars of Kaduna, for owing their players sign-on fees and salaries from last season.
The Civil Defenders, who play in the lower league, also came under the hammer of the NBBF for bringing the game into disrepute by deliberately failing to honour their match against Hoop ‘n’ Read in last November’s National Division One Championship. The matters were brought to the attention of the board by the basketball body’s technical committee. The technical committee also briefed the NBBF board on the debt stock of the federation and their efforts to offset them, with the board endorsing some of the strategies suggested to help ease the process.