President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has rewarded D’Tigress, with a national honour,Order of the Niger (OON), $100,000 each, and a flat for winning the 2025 Women’s AfroBasket title, reports Completesports.com.
Members of the technical crew led by Rena Wakama also got $50,000 each.
This was announced when President Bola Tinubu hosted the team on Monday evening following the team’s unprecedented fifth consecutive Women’s AfroBasket victory.
In the final on Sunday, Nigeria edged out Mali 78-64 in a tense showdown, displaying resilience and composure to claim their seventh AfroBasket title.
It was the seventh time D’Tigress will be winning the title.
Last week, Tinubu conferred similar national honours and gifts on the Super Falcons for winning Nigeria’s 10th title of the Women’s Africa Cup of Nations tournament in Morocco.
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These rewards Mr President is given to appreciate every success brought to Nigeria will yield a great success. Super eagles might eventually be motivated to qualify for the World Cup , win the African Nations cup and also perform well at the World Cup. I also see every national team follow same path and the handlers of each team will want to prove themselves worthy of receiving this huge amount.
Kudos to Mr Tinubu . Sport especially football is a way of diverting people’s attention from suffering being currently experienced in the country
Even though I’m of the opinion $100k per player is kinda on the high but when you think of those glutton politicians that did next to nothing yet embezzled public fund left , right and center, then you will applaud the president.
But how much the SE go come receive like this if they eventually qualify for the WC and win the AFCON?