Basketball

Kida Plots End To NBBF Crisis; To Amend Constitution

Published

3 years ago

April 16, 2022

….To Set Up Peace Committee That Will Reconcile Factions

By Peter Edema

Ahmed Musa Kida, Nigeria Basketball Federation president, has began moves to end the crisis plaguing the federation by setting in motion plans to amend some contentious sections of the constitution.The 2019 constitution of the federation approved by both the Ministry of Sports and Youth Development along side FIBA has been variously criticized by those opposed to his presidency.

However, in order to bring all stakeholders under the same umbrella so as to end all acrimony in the sport, the NBBF board meeting of 9 April 2022 in Lagos agreed to “The amendment of certain portions of the 2019 NBBF constitution, as proposed or requested by all basketball stakeholders.”

Consequently, “the board has thus set in motion the processes, as required by the constitution for the Amendments, which will include submissions already received from some stakeholders, and the Federal Ministry of Youth and Sports Development that have been collated already.”

According to a communiqué released at the weekend, “All state associations and members of the NBBF shall be communicated to submit their proposals as expressed by them in the last two extraordinary and the elective Congresses.”

The board also resolved to make a concerted and genuine effort to carry along all genuine stakeholders of basketball in order to resolve the acrimony and mistrust which has permeated the basketball family for some time now, and which manifested towards the end of the tenure of the last NBBF Board.

Towards this end, it resolved to set up a Peace Committee that will be composed of well-known and respected basketball aficionados that would be tasked with the singular objective of genuinely reconciling all members of the Nigerian Basketball Family for the good of the game, and to move forward in unison, once and for all.
In its development drive, the board also resolves to reach out to other institutions of higher learning, other than Nigeria University Games, and the Nigeria Schools’ Sports Federation with which it is already collaborating on developmental issues.

The bodies are the Nigeria Polytechnic Games and NATCEGA, to widen the scope of support that the NBBF can offer to Basketball events for the growth and development of the game of Basketball in those institutions and in Nigeria, as a whole

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Senate Set to Endorse 30% Value Addition Requirement for Raw Materials

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2 weeks ago

May 20, 2025

The Gleamer

Joel Ajayi

The Nigerian Senate has assured Nigerians and Africans that the 30% raw materials bill would be passed this week and transmitted to the House of Representatives for concurrence.
Senate President, Sen. Godswill Akpabio gave the assurance on Tuesday at the opening ceremony of the inaugural Africa Raw Materials Summit 2025, held on Tuesday in Abuja, with the theme, “Shaping the Future of Africa’s Resource Landscape.”

Speaking through the Chairman, Senate Committee on Science and Technology, Sen. Aminu Abbas, Akpabio said, “I can assure you that the 30% value addition bill before the Senate will be passed this week and transmitted to the House Representatives for concurrence.”

Earlier in his speech, he said, “In the Nigerian Senate, we have resolved to be proactive in addressing this structural imbalance. It is in this spirit that I reaffirm our full legislative backing for the 30% Minimum Value-Addition Bill, currently under consideration. This groundbreaking bill mandates that no raw material of Nigerian origin shall be exported without undergoing a minimum of 30% local value addition—whether through processing, refining, packaging, or industrial transformation.

“This legislation is not intended to stifle trade; rather, it is designed to ignite domestic enterprise, create jobs, attract capital, and build resilient value chains that benefit our people.”

“We must reject the historic pattern in which Africa merely supplies inputs while others reap the benefits of innovation, branding, and global market control.” he added.

“It is my hope that this model will be replicated across African nations, with regional centres of excellence established to share data, technologies, and best practices in raw material development.”

He used the opportunity to call on African countries to replicate the legislation in their countries to boost their economies.

“Permit me, therefore, to echo the call for the adoption of an Abuja Declaration on Raw Materials and Industrial Transformation in Africa. Let this declaration not merely reside in summit communiqués but become a living charter—a reference for executive action, legislative alignment, and investment mobilisation.

“Let it guide our representations at the African Union, the G20, and global trade forums where Africa’s voice must no longer be that of a supplier, but that of a producer,” he said.

The Minister of Science Innovation and Technology, Chief Geoffrey Innaji, speaking through the Minister of Transport, said “We are deploying digital tools, traceability infrastructure, and research-to-industry pathways to strengthen intra-African trade under AfCFTA. This is how Africa moves from extraction to transformation—from potential to prosperity.

“Let this summit send a clear message: Africa will no longer export its future in raw form. Our minerals will power industries, our crops will feed global markets, and our youth will drive innovation,” he said.

On his part, the Minister of State for Industry, John Owen, in his speech noted that, “with African continental free trade area, I believe that a lot of opportunities are already being opened to see how we can do much more than we are currently doing, and the statistics in terms of export trade should be less in terms of exporting raw materials and more in terms of exporting finished goods.”

Commenting on the Summit, the Director General Raw Materials Research and Development Council (RMRDC), Prof. Nnanyelugo Ike-Mounso, in his speech said, “Today, in the heart of Africa, we gather not merely for a summit, but for a solemn declaration: Africa shall no longer be the warehouse of raw potential, but the workshop of refined prosperity.”

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