President Muhammadu Buhari has set a machinery in place to reward athletes and footballers who excelled in various sporting endeavours accordingly in the New Year. The Minister of Youth and Sports Barr. Solomon Selcap Dalung gave the hint in Abuja Tuesday.
The Minister said efforts were being made to ensure that all athletes who excelled in various Sports
disciplines from 1985 when the players won the FIFA U-17 World Cup till date.
“Reward for excellence is part of this government’s agenda especially for youths in Nigeria. So we are working hard to offset the backlog of recognition for hard work by our athletes. We are looking at January so that we start the New Year on a clean slate” Barr. Dalung said.
It will be recalled that athletes and footballers who won laurels at various International Competitions were yet to be officially received by the Federal Government since they won trophies in various sports event.
Among those yet to be rewarded are the Golden Eaglets of 1985 who were promised houses for winning the maiden edition of the FIFA U-17 World Cup in China. Others are the victorious National Men’s Basketball Team, D Tigers who won the 2015 FIBA Africa Basketball Championship in Tunisia, Team Nigeria to the Commonwealth Youth Games in Samoa, the World Scrabble Champion, the National U-23 football Team that won gold in the African U – 23 Championship in Senegal, the Golden Eaglets that won Gold in the FIFA U17 Chile.
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