31 years after, FG rewards victorious ‘94 Super Eagles with houses

• Ekoku, others elated
Feeble Sizable Eagles striker, Efan Ekoku, can also no longer cowl his pleasure, the outdated day when the federal government redeemed the promise it made 31 years in the past to reward each and each member of the 1994 location of the crew with a housing unit.

The federal government made the promise in 1994 in appreciation of the crew’s winning of the African Cup of International locations. That victory became once Nigeria’s 2d success in the biennial championship.

The Director/Head of Department, Public Building and Housing Construction, Federal Ministry of Housing and Urban Construction, Pemi Temitope, handed over the allocation letter on behalf of the minister to Ekoku in Abuja.

Temitope outlined that the federal government became once dedicated to creating certain the success of the pledge and rewarding contributors of the crew for his or her patriotic carrier that introduced honour to the nation, saying, the exercise has been finished in states across Nigeria, while some silent theirs in Abuja.

In accordance with him, the lengthy-standing pledge of properties to the victorious 1994 Sizable Eagles Crew that won the Africa Cup of International locations in Tunisia (Tunisia ‘94), is gradually being fulfilled.

An furious Ekoku, represented by his niece, Lisa Jenifer Nwagbogun, stated: “I am deeply grateful to the Federal Authorities and the Ministry of Housing for truthful this lengthy-standing pledge to my uncle.”

She expressed delight to glimpse such commitment to integrity and apply-via, including, “The gesture no longer only honours Mr. Efan Ekoku’s carrier, but additionally restores faith in the rate of public promises being saved.”

It would be recalled that outdated President Muhammadu Buhari, in 2022, authorised the allocation of the properties to the contributors of the crew to fulfill the pledge made by the federal government in 1994.