Sponsors of the Women National Basketball League, Zenith Bank Plc, on Tuesday, 5 August, 2025, rolled out the drums for the victorious D’Tigress of Nigeria after the team secured a record-breaking 5th back-to-back AfroBasket title, reports Business Today NG.
At a reception held at their Abuja head office in Maitama, the bank rewarded the team with N200 million.
Each of the players will receive N10 million which will be paid into their Zenith Bank accounts while the technical crew and others will share the remaining.
D’Tigress, after beating Mali 78-64 in the final played in Abidjan on Sunday, 3 August, 2025, arrived the country on Monday afternoon and were hosted by President, Bola Tinubu, where they were rewarded with National Honours of OON and cash rewards.
After sponsoring the national women league for 18 years with some of the players in the past title winning team going through the league as two of the current team, Murjanatu Musa, MVP of the Air Warriors team that won the league title in 2022 and Ifunnaya Okoro with the current coach of the team, Rena Wakama, also participating in the league as a player with First Bank Women Basketball team.
Present at the reception were some of Zenith Bank’s Executive Directors, who expressed their appreciation to the D’Tigress for making the country proud. They are: Adobi Nwapa, Akin Ogunranti, Henry Oroh and Louis Odom.
