The Federal Government has fulfilled its promise to D’Tigress following their victory at the 2025 FIBA Women’s AfroBasket Championship last August.
Nigeria claimed the title after a nervy 78-64 victory over Mali in the final.
The country’s number one citizen, Bola Ahmed Tinubu approved a cash reward of naira equivalent of $100,000 to each player, and $50,000 equivalent for the coach and each technical team member at the end of the tournament.
Tinubu awarded each player, and technical crew member the title of Officer of the Order of the Niger (OON).
He also directed the allocation of one flat for each player, coach , and technical crew member.
The players and their officials were presented with their certificates for National honours and title documents to their houses allocated to them in Abuja by the Chairman of the National Sports Commission, Mallam Shehu Dikko and the Director General, Hon Bukola Olopade alongside other top Government officials in Lyon France on Monday.
The NSC Chairman said this is a prompt fulfilment of promises made by a President who truly cares with both his words and actions, stressing that Nigerian sports wouldn’t have pray for a better leader than President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR, in a time and season like this in the country’s sporting history.
” I want to first of all thank Mr President for making sports work again in Nigeria and giving every Nigerian athlete a renewed confidence that sports can truly change their lives and put food on their table, because it’s not just a leisure but a serious business,” Dikko said.
” Mr President is happy to give you girls these honours and houses because you have consistently placed Nigeria on the global map with your performance, your patriotic spirit and your never give up mentality”.
Dikko also assured the girls that the money promised to them by the President is almost in the final stage for disbursement and that too will soon drop in their respective bank Accounts.
(Complete Sports)
