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NBBF NATIONAL MEN DIVISION 1 LEAGUE GETS JANUARY 20 DATE

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Twenty-three teams in the Nigeria Basketball Federation National Men Division 1 league will battle for honour and promotion slots to the Premier Division on Monday, 20th, January 2020.

According to information released by the Secretary General of the Nigeria Basketball Federation, Afolabi-Oluwayemi Olabisi in a letter addressed to the clubs, the teams will converge on the National Stadium, Surulere, Lagos to battle for the title.

Divided into the traditional Atlantic Conference and Savannah Conference, 9 teams will compete in the Atlantic conference made up of teams from the South West, South South and South East geo political zones while the 14 teams from North East, North Central and North West make up the Savannah conference.

In the Atlantic Conference of the Total National Men Division 1 league, Air Force Warriors (Lagos) will slug it out against O.S Lions (Oshogbo), T. Joba (Akwa Ibom), Comets (Lagos), Police Bombers (Lagos), Impression Academy (Asaba), Brave Heart (Calabar), Camac (Bayelsa) and Oilers (Lagos).

In the Savannah conference, Apa Flames (Otukpo), Dashon Mambas (Abuja0, Kano Pyramid (Kano), Zamfara Shooters (Gusau), Yobe Desert Warriors (Damaturu), AHIP Giants (Kano) and All Stars (Abuja) have all been invited.

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Others include Jewel Bulls (Gombe), Prison Reformers (Abuja), Taraba Hurricanes (Jalingo), African Patriots (Kaduna), Gboko City Chief (Gboko), Golden Touch (Nasarawa) and Federal Road Safety Commission completes the teams.

Teams are expected to arrive on the Sunday, 19th of January before the Technical meeting and Total National Men Division 1 league matches the next day.

The league will last for a week with teams departing on the Monday, 27th of January.

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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