Nigerian basketball coach, Lateef Erinfolami has hailed the D’tigress following their qualification for this year’s Olympic games in Tokyo.

The back-to-back FIBA Women’s Afro-Basket champions stage a comeback to their first Olympic appearance since 2004 in Athens, Greece, after Mozambique’s quest to qualify ahead of Nigeria suffered a heavy knock when they lost scandalously 49-124 points against current world champions- USA.

The NBBF set another enviable record of being the only federation in Nigeria to have two teams at the Olympics.