Reports have it that Nigeria is lobbying for a wild card entry to the World Basketball Championship slated for Turkey in 2010, after the country failed to qualify at the Africa Basketball championship in Libya early in the month.
Other requirements, which may qualify a team for the wild card entry include the sporting aspects which comprises the popularity of basketball in the country, quality and sporting results of the country's national team and the quality of work by the National Federation - on that last count alone, the Nigeria Basketball Federation would not qualify as the basketball league was put on hold for 6 months.
There are also economic aspects to consider like the involvement of local television station(s) and/or competition(s) in domestic and international basketball - Nigeria basketball is not shown on television
Nextsports got in touch with the President of the federation, Tijjani Umar and he said, "The matter rests exclusively with the minister but if you call back in an hour, I should have more information to give you."
The president could not be reached after the one hour expired.
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