According to a statement on Tuesday by Nneka Ikem Anibeze, the Special Assistant to Minister of Sports Solomon Dalung, each player got N1,000,000 while 5 Coaching crew members got N500,000 each.
He quoted Dalung as saying: "In Mr President's usual way of showing appreciation to our sports men and women who made the nation proud, he received the team at the Presidential Villa on Wednesday August 30, 2017 during the Federal Executive meeting.
"History is made today as His Excellency, Mr President has fulfilled his promise to the heroic Afrobasket team by doling out the sum of One million Naira (N1,000,000) to each of the players and Five hundred thousand (500,000) to each of the officials totaling Seventeen million, five hundred thousand Naira (N17,500,000)."
According to him, the Minister said that Mr President's kind gesture will have a multiplier effect on the country's podium success in the forth coming Commonwealth Games, scheduled to hold in Gold Coast, Australia from 4th -15th April 2018.
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