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ENTER, SHADE OLUKOYA QUEENS AS MFM GETS WOMEN’S BASKETBALL TEAM

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Nigeria Professional Football League sides, MFM, have diversified as they now have a women’s basketball team. According to the MFM Worldwide Director of Sports, Godwin Enakhena, a frontline sports journalist, the newly established team will represent Lagos State in the Basketball Premier League.

The team is expected to leave for Enugu on Thursday for the abridged national league. According to Enakhena, the team will be known as MFM Basketball Club and tagged as ‘Shade Olukoya Queens’ of Lagos. The team is named after Pastor Shade Olukoya, the wife of the General Oversea of Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries.

 

Like Dr. Daniel Olukoya, it is understood that the wife is also a sports lover. Enakhena further revealed that the Nigeria Basketball Federation (NBBF) approval for the new club just came at the right time.

 

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“The team leaves for Enugu on Wednesday for the abridged women’s league. The top four will be in Lagos from Nov ember 2 for the final to pick representatives that will represent Nigeria on the continent”.

 

The new club has engaged Aderemi Adewunmi as coach. The coach  is otherwise known as Owolo. He is a foremost women basketball manager who led First Bank Women’s Basketball team to many successes. He also led Lagos Islanders and assisted the women’s national team until recently.

 

 

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Kunle Solaja is the author of landmark books on sports and journalism as well as being a multiple award-winning journalist and editor of long standing. He is easily Nigeria’s foremost soccer diarist and Africa's most capped FIFA World Cup journalist, having attended all FIFA World Cup finals from Italia ’90 to Qatar 2022. He was honoured at the Qatar 2022 World Cup by FIFA and AIPS.

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