Africa basketball league seal multimillion deal in landmark

THE African Basketball League (ABL) has
agreed a multi-million naira partnership
with Nigeria’s number one event center,
Landmark, for the competition, which
dunks off on March 4.
The deal will enable all 30 home games to be
played in the first season in Nigeria at
Landmark and All Star Weekend Centre.
According to the Chief Executive Officer of
ABL, Ugo Udezue, the deal is important to
Nigeria because bringing the best African
basketball teams to the country will help
create more awareness to the dunking game
“This is the first of its kind in the history of
private sports in Africa… our goal is
to provide a safe and socially conducive
entertaining environment with basketball as
the epicenter. The ABL will ‘’unite Africans
through sports,’’ he said.
The African Basketball League, billed to
commence next month, will future six teams
playing in four countries. The first game
will be between the Lagos Islanders playing
away against Libreville Izobe of Gabon.
Six strong basketball clubs have already
been confirmed for the debut season with
Lagos Islanders, Stallions and Dodan
Warriors as the Nigerian teams contesting
in the league.
Other African clubs in the league are Dakar
Rapids from Senegal, Abidjan Ramblers
from Cote d’Ivoire and Izobe Basketball
Club from Libreville, Gabon.
According to the league organisers, ABL has
built a multi-million naira infrastructure to
raise the Landmark capacity to over 4,000
seater in preparation for the season.
The games will be transmitted live on Trace
TV and match updates on BeatFM, they said,
adding that tickets can be purchased at
select Union Bank Branches in Lagos.