Nigeria face unbeaten hosts Côte d’Ivoire in the U18 Women’s AfroBasket semifinal after crushing Cameroon 75-45 in the quarter-finals.
Junior D’Tigress dismantled Senegal 70–40 in Abidjan, recovering strongly from defeat to Cameroon and securing progression to the U18 Women’s AfroBasket quarter-finals.
Three points separated D’Tigress from China in Haikou as Nigeria’s World Cup preparations moved into a sharper pressure phase.
Nigeria’s D’Tigress open their 2026 FIBA Women’s Basketball World Cup campaign against Korea on September 4 as Berlin offers another chance to push beyond previous global limits.
