Nigeria’s women’s basketball team, D’Tigress, have emerged champions of the 2025 FIBA Women’s AfroBasket following a commanding victory over Mali in the final.....KINDLY READ THE FULL STORY HERE▶

Led by head coach Rena Wakama, the team secured the historic win on Sunday at the Palais des Sports de Treichville in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire.

With this triumph, Nigeria becomes the first nation ever to win five consecutive Women’s AfroBasket titles, reinforcing their unrivaled dominance in African women’s basketball.

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Nigeria’s national women’s basketball team, D’Tigress, have secured their fifth straight FIBA Women’s AfroBasket crown, defeating Mali 78–64 in the final of the 2025 edition held in Kigali, Rwanda....KINDLY READ THE FULL STORY HERE▶

Prior to their latest triumph, D’Tigress had edged out Senegal 75–68 in a tense semifinal encounter to book their place in the final.

The victory over Mali on August 3 marks Nigeria’s seventh AfroBasket title overall, and extends their remarkable unbeaten run in the tournament to 29 games, a streak that dates back to 2015.

With this feat, D’Tigress become the first African basketball team—male or female—to win the continental championship five times consecutively.

The final was tightly contested, with Nigeria holding a slim 61–56 lead at the end of the third quarter. However, the reigning champions pulled away in the final stretch, outscoring Mali 17–8 to seal the win.

Head coach Rena Wakama, appointed in 2023, continues to rewrite history. She became the first woman to coach a team to AfroBasket glory in 2023, and has now guided Nigeria to back-to-back titles. At just 33 years old, Wakama also previously led the team to their first-ever Olympic quarterfinal berth.

This latest victory adds to Nigeria’s AfroBasket successes in 2017, 2019, 2021, and 2023. Impressively, D’Tigress have maintained a perfect winning record at the tournament for a full decade, dominating every edition since 2015.

Nollywood actor Prince Eke has raised concerns that Nigeria’s rising insecurity—particularly in Benue State—may be part of a broader, strategic push to introduce genetically modified organisms (GMOs) into Africa’s agricultural systems.....KINDLY READ THE FULL STORY HERE▶

In a post on his Instagram page, Eke suggested that the spate of violent attacks targeting local farmers, especially those relying on indigenous seeds, appears far from coincidental.

According to him, widespread violence, land seizures, and kidnappings are systematically driving smallholder farmers off their lands, crippling traditional food production. In the wake of this disruption, foreign corporations are moving in with GMO-based alternatives.

Eke warned that if this trend continues, Nigeria could become increasingly dependent on imported and patented seeds owned by multinational biotech companies—ultimately dismantling the country’s local food systems.

He wrote:
“Over the past decade, agricultural regions in Nigeria—especially Benue—have seen rising insecurity mainly targeting farmers. This doesn’t seem like a random occurrence. It may reflect a larger agenda tied to the global push for GMOs in Africa. Benue, known as the ‘food basket of the nation,’ relies heavily on small-scale farmers who use traditional seeds. But ongoing herdsmen attacks, land grabs, and kidnappings are displacing them. As food production declines, foreign corporations swoop in with GMO ‘solutions.’ With traditional agriculture under siege, our dependence on imported, patented seeds grows. Insecurity is creating the perfect opportunity for GMO interests to dominate. Or am I just overthinking?