Each Flamingo Gets A 100 Million Naira Bond They Cannot Touch Until 18

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Abuja · Thursday 12 November 2026

President Bola Tinubu has awarded each player in the Flamingos squad a 100 million naira Federal Government Savings Bond after their U-17 Women's World Cup win. The players cannot cash the bonds until they turn 18. The First Lady, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, unveiled the award when she received the team at the Presidential Villa on Wednesday.

savings bond certificate money Photograph by Jorge Salvador via Unsplash.

Who gets what

Recipient	Reward
Each player	₦100m savings bond, accessible at 18
Head coach Busari Hakeem Ishola	₦100m in cash
Each member of the technical crew	₦50m in cash
The team, from the Senate	₦100m

The Senate's donation was presented by Senate President Godswill Akpabio on Wednesday.

Why the bond is the smart part. Nigerian football is full of stories of young players handed large sums by politicians, surrounded within days by people who need some of it, and left with nothing. A bond that cannot be touched until 18, and that earns interest in the meantime, protects these girls from exactly that. It is the most sensible thing about the whole reward.

A cash prize celebrates a win. A locked bond protects a future. This one does both.

What would make it complete

Money is the easy part. The harder promise is a pathway: proper club football, coaching, education and a route into the Super Falcons. Akpabio told the coaches to keep the players training so they can move up. That needs a plan with a budget attached, not a speech, and the federation has three years to show it has one.

Reporting: Premium Times, Vanguard, Legit.ng and Complete Sports.

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