{"id":7970,"date":"2025-07-29T11:34:58","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T11:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/?p=7970"},"modified":"2025-07-29T11:35:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T11:35:08","slug":"life-is-brutally-unfair-to-police-officers-sowore-blasts-tinubu-over-%e2%82%a6150-million-prize-to-super-falcons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/2025\/07\/29\/life-is-brutally-unfair-to-police-officers-sowore-blasts-tinubu-over-%e2%82%a6150-million-prize-to-super-falcons\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Life Is Brutally Unfair To Police Officers\u2019 \u2013 Sowore Blasts Tinubu Over \u20a6150 Million Prize To Super Falcons"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>The African Action Congress (AAC) 2023 presidential candidate, Omoyele Sowore, has berated President\u00a0Bola Tinubu over the \u20a6150 million prize to the Super Falcons of Nigeria for winning the Women\u2019s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON) 2025.<\/h3>\n<h3>Tinubu on<span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">\u00a0<strong>Monday<\/strong><\/span><strong>\u00a0evening offered each player a cash reward of $100,000 and each coach <\/strong>and support staff member $50,000.<\/h3>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-3\" data-ai=\"WzMsMCwiSW5jb250ZW50IDIgLyBNZ2lkIiwiIiw0XQ==\">\n<div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1304679\" data-uid=\"0e9cf\">\n<div id=\"mgw1304679_0e9cf\">\n<div class=\"mgheader\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>He also conferred the national honour of Officer of the Order of the Niger (OON) on all 24 players and 11 technical crew members.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, each team member will receive a three-bedroom apartment under the Federal Government\u2019s Renewed Hope Housing Scheme.<\/p>\n<p>The presidential rewards sparked criticism from some Nigerians.<\/p>\n<p>In a post via \ud835\udd4f, Sowore lamented that Nigerian police officers who spend 35 years in service are retired with \u20a62 million as gratuity, no house or medical benefits, and a little pension, while the Super Falcons, who trained for 1 year and played for 1 month, were rewarded with \u20a6150 million and houses.<\/p>\n<p>He wrote,\u00a0<em>\u201cLife is brutally unfair to the Nigeria Police Force @policengofficers! Super Falcons won WAFCON, trained for 1 year, played for 1 month, were rewarded with $100,000 (N150million) each and houses!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cPolice officers protected them for decades, worked 35 years, retired with $1,500 (N2million as gratuity), no houses, no medicals, and a little pension!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe President or the Governor who handed the awards? $1 BILLION in gratuity, lifetime pension, homes everywhere, full medicals\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The African Action Congress (AAC) 2023 presidential candidate, Omoyele Sowore, has berated President\u00a0Bola Tinubu over the \u20a6150 million prize to the Super Falcons of Nigeria for winning the Women\u2019s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON)&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7971,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7972,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7970\/revisions\/7972"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}