Nigeria honours 60 Sports Icons but had no money to invite them for ceremony - Minister

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Of the 60 individuals honoured, only six were available to receive plaques at the event.

“Nigeria is celebrating her 60th anniversary. It is a landmark event and we feel that it is a perfect time to honour some of our heroes and heroines in the sports arena.

“We asked for nominations and received over 3,400. But the committee which was set up had a difficult task in picking 60 of them because we have hundreds who have represented this county well.“First we needed to keep their names classified. We didn’t want to unveil them before the unveiling proper. Some of them are just finding out about it in the media.Read

 

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But Ogun state governor gave away N5m to BBN winner. O mase o

They should task the nassnigeria and NGRSenate. They have what it takes to make Nigeria better.

But they have money to budget 125bn for NASS... SICK!!!

But there is one to embezzle! Fraudatars

Ewu EndSARS

But there is money for Hardship allowance for our Senators. 600 years

Oloribuuuuu ni gbogbo yin se, with all the money on ground.. na to swallow una sabi, awon agbaya buruku😠

But they have money to pay them (Ministers, house of reps and Senators) millions of Naira every month... You all will rot in hell .... EndSARS EndPoliceBrutalitynow

Imagine what these idiots at the helm of affairs in this country are spewing out of their mouth?

May thunder fire you in different sizes

Take loan as usual, bunch of criminals mole.

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