President Bola Tinubu has congratulated the Director-Basic of the Power Fee of Nigeria (ECN), Mustapha Abdullahi, on his election as President of the Nigeria Basketball Federation (NBBF), expressing optimism that his management will advance the advance of the game. In a remark signed via his Particular Adviser on Knowledge and……
President Bola Tinubu has congratulated the Director-Basic of the Power Fee of Nigeria (ECN), Mustapha Abdullahi, on his election as President of the Nigeria Basketball Federation (NBBF), expressing optimism that his management will advance the advance of the game.
In a remark signed via his Particular Adviser on Knowledge and Technique, Bayo Onanuga, on Friday, October 16, 2026, the President described Abdullahi’s emergence as a possibility to beef up basketball construction in Nigeria and advised him to deploy his enjoy and management to make stronger the management of the federation.
Tinubu charged the brand new NBBF president to create extra alternatives for younger Nigerian basketball gamers to broaden their skills and excel at nationwide and world ranges.
He also known as on stakeholders in Nigerian basketball, together with gamers, coaches, directors, sponsors and supporters, to reinforce the brand new management and paintings in combination in opposition to construction a more potent, extra aggressive and professionally controlled federation.
“The brand new NBBF management must emphasise the advance of the welfare of athletes, efficient skill identity and the promotion of each males’s and ladies’s basketball as crucial pillars for the sustained expansion of the game,” the President stated.
Tinubu additional reaffirmed the Federal Executive’s popularity of sports activities as a platform for adolescence empowerment, nationwide solidarity and world engagement.
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“I want the brand new NBBF Boss a a success tenure and guarantee him of the Federal Executive’s persevered popularity of sports activities as a very powerful platform for adolescence empowerment, nationwide solidarity and world engagement,” he added.
Abdullahi’s election puts him on the helm of the federation chargeable for administering and growing basketball in Nigeria, with expectancies that his tenure will beef up grassroots participation, make stronger athlete welfare and improve the rustic’s competitiveness within the game.