AFCON Victory: Jonathan Splashes N5m On Supporters Club

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President Goodluck Jonathan on Wednesday announced a gift of N5 million to the Football Supporters Club of Nigeria, for cheering the Super Eagles to the Africa Cup of Nations victory.

The President announced the gift when the Minister of Sports, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, presented the AFCON 2013 trophy to the Federal Executive Council (FEC) in Abuja.

At the ceremony, which took place before the FEC meeting in the Council Chamber of the Presidential Villa, Jonathan commended members of the supporters’ club for their unrelenting spirits.

It will be recalled that the President had at a special reception Tuesday rewarded the victorious Super Eagles team with national honours, cash donations and a plot of land each in FCT.

Guinness,160million Nigerian fans inspire the Super Eagles to victory

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It was sweet victory yesterday in South Africa as the African Cup of Nations 2013 drew to a close! Guinness, the official sponsor of the Super Eagles can rightly say it successfully inspired the Eagles to victory in South Africa  as millions of Nigerian fans participated in sending goodwill messages to the victorious team. Recall that Guinness launched the ‘Fly With The Eagles’ campaign, to rally the support of 160 million Nigerian fans for the team ahead of the tournament.

 

The campaign which flagged off at Eko Hotels and Suites in November 2012, had in attendance notable personalities in Nigerian sports and sports administration in attendance from ex-internationals such as JayJay Okocha, Kanu Nwakwo, Segun Odegbami, NFF officials, Lagos State Sport’s commissioner, Football Supporters club of Nigeria and the assistant coach of the Super Eagles, Daniel Amokachi. The campaign which constituted a series of amazing fan engagement platforms; The Fly with the Eagles Consumer Promotion which had lucky fans win a variety of exciting prizes including a 200 man-all expense paid trip to South Africa to watch the Eagles play live and cheer them to victory.