President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has rewarded the Super Falcons with cash gifts, house gifts, and national honours for winning the 2024 Women’s Africa Cup of Nations.
Each member of the team will get $100,000 each, while the team officials will receive $50,000 each.
The Nigerian Governors’ Forum also gifted the Super Falcons a sum of N360m.
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All the team members will also receive a three-bedroom apartment at the Renewed Hope Estate as well as national honour of Order of the Niger (OON).
Tinubu hosted the players, and their officials at the Presidential Villa in Aso Rock on Monday.
The Super Falcons won the WAFCON title for a record -extending 10th time after overcoming the Atlas Lionesses of Morocco 3-2 in a keenly contested final in Rabat on Saturday.
By Adeboye Amosu
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They shouldn’t go through NFF oh. The rewards should go straight to the recipients.
Nice one.
But what about the winner’s prize money and tournament participation fees?
NFF ONIGBESE must keep their distance from that money.
The money should be paid DIRECTLY to the coaches and players.
If that money is allowed to enter the coffers of NFF, the players and coaches no go see shingbain! SHISHI!
Na today? No more monkey dey work, baboon dey chop. The team must reap the fruits of their labor.
NFF will not try anything. The only lag might be government bureaucracy. I think even the much publicized payments of all allowances too – after several years. It might be a bit slow but caf money where the players will only receive 33% and NFF 67% in the name of catering to their feeder teams and sponsoring their future engagements? The players will get that.
The more important WAFCON (I still don’t trust CAF well enough) should happen next March. The last leg of qualifiers is happening this October. Falcons will play Benin Republic over two legs.
NFF don’t want a serious mutiny to brew by then if the girls are not moved. Them go just cast.
So, glasshouse will behave.
In my opinion the monies given to these players is a lot.
Agreed they brought joy to millions but they are not the only heroes in the country. People have served that country for years and retired with no retirement benefits..A lot of them are dead because they don’t matter and no one cares but these are people who worked their socks off to make sure the country is where it’s today and most of them are owed their services aren’t appreciated..
We have millions of hopeless children living in abject penury,jobless youths who have taken to crime out of frustration,insecurities,poor health care poor amenities the list goes on..
We like to honour the rich but careless about the poor who doesn’t matter..
Government shouldn’t be given out this amount of dollars to already rich footballers in an impoverished country where terrorism has led to thousands of people dead and millions displaced.National honours houses and a few dollars should be alright in my opinion the rest of the monies should be channelled to those displaced people in Benue state the children and families of the slayed also purchase of facilities to equip security services fighting insurgencies.
I really don’t know who advises the FG on the best reward system for sporting teams. $100K is just excess to me.
Even CAF’s award to Nigeria as the WAFCON winners is $1m, whereas Nigeria is splurging a whopping $2.4million on the girls, and half of that on the technical team, totalling over $4m. That’s over N6 billion, which is a significant chunk of some state’s budget for the year.
Everything doesn’t have to be cash. Why not instead give half of that money in stocks, shares, bonds that will compound, or scholarships, or other investments of their choice, while $50K is deposited in their bank accounts?
Anyway, if FG can afford such humongous money for the Falcons, why not declare a similar motivation for the Eagles and the coaches for the 2 WC matches coming up in August/September?
Promise the SE, Chelles, and his assistants $20K each if they get maximum points in the matches against Rwanda and South Africa and watch them disgrace Bafana Bafana at home on September 6.
If being in the Super Eagles team that is the FIRST TO MISS OUT ON 2 CONSECUTIVE FIFA SENIOR WORLD CUPS is not enough motivation for Osimhen and co, nothing else will.
They don’t need more money to go to the world cup that will be on their CV and not mine.
Unwanted history is staring at them if they decide to be complacent again.
After all, they are well paid more than the ladies who have dominated the continent for 3 decades.
Green ruft abi watin? Well said!
Ehn henn, if nah dis kain preaching yuh bin dey preach den dis mek sense well well ke..
Nor be all dat yur crying about sonting wey no concern yuh ar anybodi – of hu is buying hu? and what club dis an dat are playing for?
Plaese more of dis an less of dat.
In dis Nigraein, wuna leaders is eediots!
Dis is de only tings dat my old countre Ghana use better pass dis Nigreain
If yuh Nigreains can had better leaders wey get comon sense den de country for betta.
@Greenturf, I agree with what you just said.
This is what we get because those in power don’t think the way we think and believe that doing this will generate more votes for them during the election.
None of their friends and family are in that situation you mentioned, and they don’t care.
Do the government have plans for the poor?
We don’t have structures in Nigeria. The rulers will wake up one day and make the law.
If indeed we have structures and we abide by that then by now, those in pain should be catered for and those in need shouldn’t be struggling to get back on their feet.
Sadly, we Nigerians can’t come as one to build ourselves first and then we build our government.
Hmmm. If we can do those two things, Nigeria as a country will be the best in the whole world.
The Nigerian government have to scrap the old school data and introduce the new idea.
Do we know how many people enter Nigeria daily? How about those who are living in the country?
The government doesn’t have to see you one by one before they can deposit money into your account because they have your information handy and everything is digitalized.
The way it is, we are not ready for a change in Nigeria.
Can we be proud of 24/7 electricity in Nigeria? If no electricity, it means no progress because you can not do anything meaningful if there’s no power in everyone’s home.
We shouldn’t be using the generators at home, but at the site, congratulations. Our government are not illiterate kę.
Insecurity is another issue. Kai, this country needs help from its people and the government.
Let me stop here because Nigerians do not like the truth.
Hmmm. CSN, why are you not allowing my post to be shown on your platform? Are you people happy the way everything is struggling in Nigeria?
I am for the truth and please allow me to speak the truth to the government and Nigerians. We all have a role to play if we want a new Nigeria. Ire o. God bless Nigeria!!!
What are you guys saying self that $100000 is too much. Did you guys know this is the only time sport men and women get rewards for their labour.
You think this same fg will remember these girls again after now.
Can’t you guys see how our past sport heros have been dying like ordinary person.
Please even if fg gave them $200000, to me is still small, how much is security vote money that all your state governors share every month?
I learnt before it was N500m some many years back, I believe by now it should be in the range of N1B.
Please let these girls enjoy this money, who know it could only be the reward they will ever get for serving Nigeria.
I have no issues whatsoever with the 100k cash gift to the players. NONE WHATSOEVER!
This is just a token of our appreciation for all their hard work. It’s been a long, arduous journey from the qualifiers to the trophy. E easy? Abeg let them enjoy the fruits of their labor.
Like I mentioned in previous posts, the time is rapidly approaching when our ladies will start commanding equal pay compared with the men. In fact, they may soon start earning more. Simply because they are producing, they are doing well, and the demand for the Super Falcons brand has sky rocketed. Nowadays some fans would rather watch the Super Falcons play than watch the Super Eagles. O yes! As demand goes up, compensation will also go up.
We must develop the habit of rewarding excellence instead of constantly tolerating mediocrity.
I just wish our past heroes also got their own reward. Names like FLORENCE OMAGBEMI come to mind. Omagbemi and so many other past SF players who helped Nigeria to accumulate a whopping 9 WAFCONs before Ajibade and co. finally added the 10th, these players and their coaches all deserve rewards for their efforts.
Ann Chiejine, like Omagbemi, has also won the WAFCON as a player and as a coach. At least, she has been rewarded with the current team. But the other players should not be abandoned. They all should get a reward.
On another note, I just saw a clip of Ghana fans welcoming their bronze winning Black Queens back home, AND IT WAS SO HEARTWARMING! The Ghana fans truly appreciated the efforts of their team. Just recently, the Super Eagles came back from the Afcon with a silver medal, and some Nigeria fans were complaining. When we got bronze in a recent edition, one forumite even said we should stop celebrating because of “ORDINARY BRONZE”.
Ordinary bronze? Really? Your boot size dey market ooo. We are waiting to see what you can do, since to you bronze is ordinary.
Big kudos to Ghana fans for the support and appreciation they showed their team. Can you imagine what will happen when they finally land a trophy after so many years? Perhaps the president will declare a month long holiday for endless partying. LOOOOOOL!