President Muhammadu Buhari has redeemed his promise to reward the 2017 Afrobasket winning women’s team, D’Tigress.
Each player got N1 million, while five coaching crew members got N500,000 each.
In his address, the Minister of Youth and Sports Barrister Solomon Dalung, said sports in Nigeria is moving to greater heights through the unprecedented support of Buhari.
Dalung said: “In Mr. President’s usual way of showing appreciation to our sports men and women who made the nation proud, he received the team at the Presidential Villa on Wednesday August 30, 2017 during the Federal Executive meeting.
“History is made today as Mr President has fulfilled his promise to the heroic Afrobasket team by doling out the sum of One million Naira (N1,000,000) to each of the players and Five hundred thousand (500,000) to each of the officials totaling Seventeen million, five hundred thousand Naira (N17,500,000).”
Dalung thanked the President for his administration’s outstanding contributions to the development of sports in Nigeria and for his extrinsic reward in particular.
The Minister said Buhari’s kind gesture will have a multiplier effect on the country’s podium success in the forth coming Commonwealth Games, scheduled to hold in Gold Coast, Australia from 4th -15th April 2018.
In his response, the Vice President of the Nigeria Basketball Federation, Babs Ogunade, thanked the President for redeeming his promise to reward D’Tigress for their excellence and hard work.
“Over a period of time, administrations have made promises to athletes and failed but with the change mantra, this administration promised to reward the gold winning basketball team and they have fulfilled their promise,” Ogunade said.
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