The 2025 edition of the Women Premier Basketball League gets underway on Tuesday at the indoor Sports hall of the Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium, Benin, Edo State, as the defending champions, Mountain of Fire and Ministries Basketball team clash with First Deep Waters.
The annual elite women’s basketball league is sponsored by Zenith Bank Plc in collaboration with the Nigeria Basketball Federation.
After two morning games at the same venue on Tuesday, First Deep Waters will file out against the Champions at 1 pm as the Olukoya girls will be expected to show the stuff that made they the best in the country last year.
The first match of the day will be played between Sunshine Angels and Bayelsa Blue Whales at 9 am, while the second game, slated for 11 am, will see First Bank and Delta Force tango for honours.
In the last game of day one, scheduled to start at 3 pm, IGP Queens will try Dolphins for size.
The Group Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Zenith Bank Plc, Dame Umeoji, has assured that the women’s basketball league, which the company has been sponsoring for about 20 years, would be getting bigger and better every year.
Umeoji expressed delight over how the competition has produced national team stars over the years, just as D’Tigress have been ruling the continent by winning the AfroBasket in the past four editions, courtesy of the products of the Zenith Bank Women Premier League.
The MFM Basketball team won the 2023 and 2024 editions of the league.
