Players of the Nigeria U-18 boys’ basketball team have been denied visas to the 2024 FIBA U18 Afrobasket.
by the South African Office at the Government Capital Domain, Abuja.
This choice has imperiled Nigeria’s outing to the biennial competition beginning in South Africa on Tuesday (today), with Nigeria charged to confront Egypt in Pretoria later in the day.
The players, who prepared and set up camp in Abuja on get back from Abidjan, are in complete shock, tears, and agony as they watch their fantasies about being at the FIBA Big showdown blur because of the South Africans denying them passage.
The Bad habit Administrator of the Young Advancement Board of the Nigeria B-ball Organization, Ugo Udezue, who is now in Pretoria with the primary group, was stunned when he was alarmed on the turn of events. He considers the improvement to be an all out damage.
He expressed, “As a matter of some importance, tragically an African nation needs a visa to make a trip to another African country. Besides, this is against the soul of sportsmanship. These children have forfeited a lot for a visa consular official to deny them the chance to worldwide address Nigeria.”
The demonstration of rejecting the group visas appears to be a conscious endeavor to stop the Lesser D’Tigers, as the South African Consulate in Lagos cleared the young ladies to travel, and they are as of now in Pretoria and set for their initial match against Egypt on Tuesday.
The young ladies were set up camp in Lagos on their return from Ivory Coast, where the two groups completed as victors of the FIBA Africa Zone 3 qualifiers.
The NBBF sent the names of the young men and young ladies in a solitary letter to the consulate.
It was discovered that the NBBF has previously grumbled to FIBA Africa, the South African hosts, and Nigeria’s International concerns Service. The calls made by South African authorities from Pretoria have had almost no effect.
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