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When a country rewards each Super Falcons player with N150m and house for a 90-minute football, yet sends police and military pensioners who served 35 years home with N2m, no housing, no healthcare, and a pension too small to feed

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The Atletico Madrid forward captained Nigeria to its 10th Women’s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON) title in Morocco.

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Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Channels Media Group, Dr. John Momoh, has described the recent triumph of Nigeria’s Super Falcons at the Women’s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON) as a moment that reignited national pride and showcased the strength and potential of the Nigerian spirit to the world.

The Labour Party expressed regret that “the nation’s foremost custodian and presumed chief ambassador of the Nigerian Naira, chose to reward our gallant Super Falcons in United States dollars.”

“But what it almost did was to get me hungrier because your mother (First Lady) was in the kitchen, almost abandoning my dinner. A game that she doesn’t watch except that the girls are playing and she keeps running ‘we have won,’ ‘’I said we have not yet won. And at the end of the final whistle, it was excitement all over the country.”

‘On behalf of a grateful nation, I hereby confer on the players and 11-man technical team the national honour of OON’