Exposed : Kida’s Score Card

At a time when basketball fratenity in Nigeria has been involved in crisis in the battle of who controls the slam and dunk game in the country, one man continues with his giant strides of achievements as a leader.

The midas touch of Egnr. Ahmadu Musa Kida as the President of Nigeria Basketball Federation ( NBBF) in the last four years  has witnessed tremendous transformation of the game in Nigeria.

Despite all the turbulence that heralded his emergence as the President of NBBF, Kida continues to flourish with undeniable results of excellence as seen with the great feat of D’ Tigress at the just concluded Afrobasket championship in Cameroon where Nigeria emerged champions for the third time in a row since 2017, same year Kida was elected as President of NBBF.

Another great feat achieved by Kida was to see both the D’ Tigers and D’ Tigress compete at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Both the male and female basketball senior national teams of Nigeria did not live up to the expectations of Nigerians, but it is still worthy to note that the experience gathered will be an added advantage going forward.

While D’ Tigers faltered at Afrobasket championship in Rwanda losing to lowly rated Uganda to crash out of the tournament, D’ Tigress flourished to amazingly finished as the ultimate champions of women’s Afrobasket championship in Cameroon.

That’s sport for you. You win some and lose some. Life goes on as you go back to preparation for the next major championship.

There is no doubt that Kida has shown strong will to reposition the game of basketball to greatness since his emergence as the numero uno in the affairs of basketball in Nigeria.

The score card below tells it all : 
2017Afrobasket Women in Mali – Gold Afrobasket Men  in Tunisia – Silver

2018 FIBA Women World Cup – Spain
D ‘ Tigress were in superlative form as they become the first African team to play at the quarter finals of FIBA Women’s World Cup.
2019Afrobasket Women in Senegal – GoldAfrobasket Men 
20203×3 Male and Female 
2021Olympics Male and Female

Expanded Division One
Introduced a robust Division Two
Got sponsors for Division One and Two
Hosted World cup qualifiers (two windows)
Admitted more teams into the women’s league
More phases and more games for teams in the women league
3×3 participation
Women team 3×3 participation (2019) lost in the semi finalAfrican Games Gold medalist (2019)
Men’s teamHistoric 3×3 gold medal win in Lome (2017) 3×3 participation (2018) where they won a bronze2019 outing where the team lost in the quarter finals (Kampala)

First ever world cup outing in 2019 (Manila,  Phillipines)
U-18 boys participation where they came 4th (2019)U-18 girls participation where they came 4th (2019)

Looking at the above score card, there is no denying the fact that Kida has done well for basketball in the last four years and it will not be out of place for him to present himself for another term in office. 

However, the ball is in the court of basketball stakeholders to properly ensure that the man with clear vision and mission is given the nod to lead the NBBF.