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The Nigerian senior men’s basketball team, D’Tigers, have reached the quarterfinals of the 2017 FIBA Men’s AfroBasket Championship in Tunisia despite83-77 loss to DR Congo. The game against the Congolese, played on Sunday, was the Nigerian men’s third game and their first defeat in the tournament.

Amnesty International in a press release on Tuesday said that more than 223 people have been killed in Boko Haram attacks in the country’s North-east since April, 2017. According to data compiled by Amnesty International, most of the attacks which were mainly suicidal in nature, carried out by women and girls forced into the act occurred in Borno.

At least three persons are believed to have been killed as traders and youths clashed with security operatives at Eke Onunwa market in Owerri, Imo state capital, on Saturday. The irate traders and youths are protesting the demolition order given by the state government on the relocation of the market.

The National Association of Resident Doctors of Nigeria (NARD) says it may suspend its ongoing nationwide strike if it gets evidence of payment of salary arrears. This followed a meeting between the leadership of NARD and representatives of the Federal Government which started on Wednesday and ended in the early hours of Thursday the Federal Secretariat in Abuja.

Nigeria’s senior women basketball team, D’Tigress have emerged champions of the 2017 FIBA Women’s Afrobasket, which took place at Bamako, Mali. D’Tigress won the title on Sunday evening after defeating strong rivals Senegal 65-48 in the final, to clinch the title for the 3rd time after 12 years. Following their victory, Nigeria also qualified for the FIBA Women’s World Cup in Spain in 2018.

FIFA has appointed a committee to run crisis ridden Cameroonian football association. "The Bureau of the FIFA Council has today decided to appoint a normalisation committee for the Cameroonian Football Association (FECAFOOT)," FIFA said in a statement released Wednesday. The normalisation committee will be composed of an adequate number of members to be identified by a joint FIFA and CAF mission scheduled to take place very shortly,” a statement from Fifa read.