ASPAC basketball club and Energie basketball club from Benin Republic, and Ghanaian top sides Customs Braves and Spintex Knights are set to compete in the 2024 West African Championship, organised by Louis Edem Foundation at the National Stadium indoor hall in Lagos.
The championship will take place from March 31 to April 7 2024.
It was initially scheduled to take place in Abuja in order to open up the tournament to the Savannah Conference team in the Northern region but will now take place in Lagos due to logistic considerations for the international teams participating this year.
Leading the way for Team Nigeria at the 2024 season of the LEF Invitational are reigning champions Rivers Hoopers, 2022 champions Kwara Falcons, Lagos Raptors, Lagos Legends, Comets, and Hoops and Read.
Founder & President of Louis Edem Foundation, Louis Edem emphasised the foundation’s commitment to investing 100 million naira over the next five years to develop grassroots basketball in Nigeria.
The two-time Nigeria basketball league MVP said: “We are in the second year of our N100 million commitment to developing basketball in Nigeria, supporting the efforts of the Nigeria Basketball Federation to grow the game.”
