Wakama, 32, guided the female basketball team to their first-ever quarterfinals of the Olympic games when they beat Canada 79-70.
However, their journey at the Olympics was cut short when they lost to the eventual winners — United States, by 88-74 in the quarterfinals of the women’s basketball event.
Despite this, the team made an impressive record of being the only African basketball team (men and women) to progress to the last 16 at the event.
Wakama is the first Nigerian National Female Basketball Team coach to win the women’s Afrobasket title since it began in 1966.
D’Tigress defeated Senegal 84-74 in the final and secured Nigeria’s place as only the second country to win the title four times in a row.
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