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Friday 10 October 2014

President Jonathan Rewards Athletes & Officials With N300m

President Jonathan receiving a Plaque from Commonwealth Games Gold Medalist Blessing Okagbare.
While speaking at the event the president said: “Realising the significance of sports in national transformation, I took the decision to organise a retreat for the sports sector in 2012. “This arose from my conviction that our outing at the 2012 Olympic Games did not represent full potential. “Of course, if you look at the continent of Africa, we have the largest population; we are highest in terms of diversity and our economy is also the largest. “In any competition in Africa, third position is not good enough for us because in all the other parameters we are never third. “I am happy to note that things have progressively changed for the better since that retreat,” he said. Jonathan commended that National Sports Commission for the “dedicated implementation” of the decisions taken at that retreat.
 Among the athletes were those who participated in the African Senior Athletics Championships in Marrakech, Morocco, and the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland. Others were participants in the African Youth Games in Gaborone, Botswana; the World Junior Athletics Championships in Oregon, USA, and the 2014 FIFA Female U-20 Football World Cup in Montreal, Canada.



President Jonathan while hosting athletes and their officials who made the country proud at different international competitions in 2014 stated that they would be reward N300m has the reward for their exploits. He made this known yesterday, Wednesday at the reception in honour of the 351 sports men and women at the Banquet Hall of the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Also in the list were participants in the African Senior Wrestling Championship and the African Junior Wrestling Championship. The list included athletes in the Partille World Handball Youth Championships, in Sweden; the World Powerlifting championships in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and the African Shooting Championship in Cairo, Egypt.

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