Nigeria’s D’Tigress who won the 2017 Women Afrobasket championship in Mali will arrive at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos on Monday at 21:30hours after a successful campaign in Mali.

It was gathered that The contingent will arrive in Lagos aboard Air Cote d’Ivoire after departing Bamako, Mali on the 28th August at 14.00 hours local time.

The team will be without Coach Sam Vincent, Mfon Udoka, Evelyn Akhator and Nyingifa Atonye, who have all left from Bamako to their various bases due to club and personal engagements.

Akhator who was selected as one of the competition’s best five left for Chicago to play for her club Dallas Wings in a WNBA game while Nyingifa will join her club in San Juan, Puerto Rico.