Two-time Nigerian basketball league Most Valuable Player, Louis Edem Ekpenyong, has concluded plans to host an elite national basketball championship between February 7 and 11, 2023.
The event will hold at the National Stadium, Surulere, Lagos.The basketball tourney, according to Ekpenyong, is being put together to honour his father, who died during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.The tournament will feature eight Premier league teams from across Nigeria.
They will vie for the grand prize of N2 million with the runners-up going home with N1 million. The tournament’s MVP award, which is named after Engineer Francis Ekpenyong, will pocket N100,000 cash.
Ekpenyong, an Information Technology Engineer in Maryland, United States, praised his late father for supporting his basketball career. “He made me who I am today.