The management of Zenith Bank Plc has commended the national women’s basketball team, D’Tigress, for the great feat they achieved in the group opening match of the ongoing Olympic Games.
D’Tigress caused one of the biggest shocks of the Paris 2024 Olympics yesterday morning with a 75-62 victory over Australia in the women’s basketball event.
Group Managing Director of Zenith Bank, Adaora Umeoji, expressed delight over the amazing feat which has been tagged one of the greatest upsets in the history of the Olympic Games basketball event.
Umeoji noted that the bank was proud of the girls especially because it was a historic win by a team that is ‘pet team’ of Zenith Bank It will be recalled that Zenith Bank has been the sole sponsor of the national women’s league in the past 19 years and the competition has produced many national team stars for the country.
For example, Murjanatu Musa, who was the MVP of the 2022 Zenith Bank Women’s Basketball League, was in the starting line-up for D’Tigress on Monday.
“We are extremely proud of the ladies because they are challenging us as a body to do more for sports development in Nigeria.