NBBF Mourns Budding Female Basketball Player

Oyinlola Awonuga
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By Oyinlola Awonuga (The New Diplomat’s Entertainment, Style and Sports Desk)

The Nigeria Basketball Federation (NBBF) has announced the death of one of the rising prospects in the Nigerian basketball scene, Deborah Onu.

According to reportsĀ Onu passed away in the early hours of Saturday at an Abuja based hospital due to complications from tuberculosis of the spine.

The sad news was made public by the Secretary General of the Nigerian Basketball Federation (NBBF), Afolabi-Oluwayemi Olabisi while briefing the board.

According to her, the late Onu was responding to treatments after undergoing treatment at the intensive care unit of Primus Hospital, Karu before the sad incidence.

ā€œWe were told she showed marked improvements and was gradually being eased off life support before her condition took a turn for the worst overnight before giving up the ghost. This is very sad and painful.ā€

On his part, the NBBF President, Engr Musa Kida, who was distraught by the news lamented the loss of the promising and talented basketballer as such an unripe age.

ā€œOur thoughts are with the parents, coaches and team mates at these dark hours. We pray for her gentle soul to find repose with her creator while granting those she left behind the fortitude to bear this irreparable loss.

ā€œWe are comforted that she died knowing that Nigerians cared for her. From the reports we gathered, she was wrongly diagnosed for months by different Doctors which made her case more complicated.
Burial announcements will be announced by the family.”

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