By Dr Isa Muhammad Inuwa, BUK
We haven’t recovered from the shock of the Federal Government of Nigeria’s lavish gifts to players of the female national football and basketball teams, the Falcons and the D’Tigress, when two girls from Yobe state emerged as overall winners of the English Language Debate Competition in London.
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If President Bola Ahmed Tinubu would largesse the Falconets and D’Tigress their respective victories in sports, Nafisa Abdullahi, 17 and Rukayya Muhammad Fema, 15, the Yobe girls who beat 20, 000 participants from 67 counties in the London Teenage English competition, deserve better (more than just equal) treatment.
In what is seen to have stirred a profound nation-wide uproar, President Tinubu dolled out 200, 000 dollars, worth about 160 million Naira.
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This was in addition to 3 bedroom apartments in Abuja, plus national honours given to each player of the Nigeria’s female football and Basketball players
