BEVERLY HILLS, May 07, (THEWILL) – The Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, says it will pay the mothers of deceased Super Eagles Super stars, Rashidi Yekini and Samuel Okwaraji a monthly stipend of N30, 000 henceforth.
The gesture comes a day after the Sports Minister, Sunday Dare, said his Ministry has placed the aged women on a monthly stipend of N10, 000. This was after presenting Yekini’s mother N50, 000, a bag of rice and beverages for the holy month of Ramadam.
“In furtherance to, and in appreciation of, the recent pronouncement of the HM Sports @SundayDareSD to put the mothers of late ex-internationals Sam Okwaraji and Rashidi Yekini on a monthly stipend, the NFF has decided to support this noble initiative with a further monthly stipend of N30k to each of the two matriarchs,” the NFF tweeted Thursday.
“In addition, the NFF will henceforth review the situation of surviving mothers of our ex-internationals that died in active service for the country and resolve what to do for them on a monthly basis.”
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Okwaraji died on August 12, 1989 from heart failure at the National Stadium during a World Cup Qualifier against Angola. He played for a German Club before his death.
Yekini died in Ibadan 2012 after a successful professional soccer career that made him one of the leading strikers in Europe playing for Vitória de Setúbal in Portugal. He played 58 games for Nigeria and scored 37 times. He represented Nigeria at two World Cups and scored the country’s first World Cup goal in the USA in1994 against Bulgaria.
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