{"id":71434,"date":"2025-07-25T09:25:27","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T09:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=71434"},"modified":"2025-07-25T09:25:27","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T09:25:27","slug":"tinubu-approves-n2bn-for-super-falcons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/07\/25\/tinubu-approves-n2bn-for-super-falcons\/","title":{"rendered":"Tinubu Approves N2bn for Super Falcons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Huldah Shado<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a gesture of support, President Bola Tinubu has approved the full settlement of allowances and match bonuses for the Super Falcons, just ahead of their final match against Morocco in the 2025 Women&#8217;s Africa Cup of Nations.<\/p>\n<p>This announcement was made via a statement on the President&#8217;s official X handle, managed by the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu Media Center.<\/p>\n<p>The payment, as detailed in the statement, will not only cover the outstanding allowances and match bonuses for the Super Falcons but also address the salary arrears of senior national team coaches, which have been pending for up to 15 months.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, it will settle outstanding allowances and promises made to senior national teams, including both female teams and the Under-20 national team.<\/p>\n<p>According to the statement, President Tinubu has authorized the payment of N12 billion to clear the outstanding backlog for Nigeria&#8217;s national teams across various sports, including the Super Eagles.<\/p>\n<p>This move is expected to provide significant financial relief and support to the teams, enabling them to focus on their upcoming matches without any financial distractions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Huldah Shado In a gesture of support, President Bola Tinubu has approved the full settlement of allowances and match bonuses for the Super Falcons, just ahead of their final match against Morocco in the 2025 Women&#8217;s Africa Cup of Nations. This announcement was made via a statement on the President&#8217;s official X handle, managed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":71435,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71434"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71436,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71434\/revisions\/71436"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}