Since 1964 · Nigeria Basketball Federation (NBBF)
Basketball
Nigeria first entered international basketball at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics. The men's team — D'Tigers — won FIBA AfroBasket 2015 and qualified for three Olympics (2012, 2016, 2020). The women's team — D'Tigress — have built the most dominant streak in modern African basketball: SIX consecutive FIBA Women's AfroBasket titles (2017, 2019, 2021, 2023, 2025) under three different head coaches, the last two under Rena Wakama — the first woman ever to coach an AfroBasket-winning team. D'Tigress reached the quarterfinals of the Paris 2024 Olympics, the first African women's team ever to do so.
- 2012
London Olympics — men
Host: United Kingdom
Quarterfinalists after famous OQT qualification beating Lithuania and Greece in Caracas.
- Players:
- Olumide Oyedeji, Ike Diogu, Al-Farouq Aminu, Tony Skinn, Chamberlain Oguchi
- Coach:
- Ayo Bakare
- Minister of Sport:
- Bolaji Abdullahi (Sports)
- Body:
- NBBF
- 2015
FIBA AfroBasket, Tunisia
Host: Tunisia
GOLD — D'Tigers beat Angola 74–65 in final; Nigeria's first ever AfroBasket men's title.
- Players:
- Ike Diogu, Al-Farouq Aminu, Chamberlain Oguchi, Michael Umeh
- Coach:
- Will Voigt
- Minister of Sport:
- Solomon Dalung (Sports)
- Body:
- NBBF
- 2017
FIBA Women's AfroBasket, Bamako
Host: Mali
GOLD — D'Tigress beat Senegal 65–48; first title of what became the African four-peat-plus.
- Players:
- Adaora Elonu (MVP), Evelyn Akhator, Aisha Mohammed
- Coach:
- Sam Vincent
- Body:
- NBBF
- 2023
FIBA Women's AfroBasket, Kigali
Host: Rwanda
GOLD — fourth straight title for D'Tigress.
- Players:
- Ezinne Kalu (MVP), Amy Okonkwo, Promise Amukamara, Pallas Kunaiyi-Akpanah
- Coach:
- Rena Wakama (first woman to coach an AfroBasket-winning team)
- Minister of Sport:
- John Owan Enoh
- Body:
- NBBF
- 2024
Paris Olympics — women
Host: France
QUARTERFINALS — first African women's team to reach the Olympic basketball quarterfinals.
- Players:
- Ezinne Kalu, Amy Okonkwo, Promise Amukamara, Elizabeth Balogun, Murjanatu Musa
- Coach:
- Rena Wakama
- Minister of Sport:
- John Owan Enoh
- Body:
- NBBF
Defeated Canada 79–70 in pool play — first Nigerian Olympic basketball win since 2012.
- 2025
FIBA Women's AfroBasket, Abidjan
Host: Côte d'Ivoire
GOLD — sixth straight title; only African team (men or women) to win six AfroBaskets in a row.
- Coach:
- Rena Wakama
- Minister of Sport:
- Sunday Dare / John Owan Enoh transition
- Body:
- NBBF