The Nigeria Football Federation has partially paid the Flamingos' bonuses in response to The PUNCH's story that the team's players and officials hadn't yet received their allowances and match bonuses after placing third at the U-17 Women's World Cup in India last year.
After the team's bonuses for qualifying matches against Congo, Egypt, and Ethiopia were not paid, some of the players told The PUNCH on January 10 that they went door-to-door pleading for money to celebrate the Yuletide.
Additionally, our correspondent learned that the players and officials had not yet received their World Cup incentives for the matches against Chile, New Zealand, the United States, and Germany.
One of the players, who wished to remain anonymous out of fear of retaliation, stated, "We can't thank The PUNCH enough for being our mouthpiece because after the publishing of our predicament, we have been given the bonuses for the qualifications and transportation."
"The NFF has received a lot of great feedback, and we are anticipating more bonuses anytime soon. By that time, I believe they will make it public," a different Flamingos player continued.
"We've been paid part of our incentives and we are expecting the remainder," the team representative continued. The Federal Government will shortly pay us and has asked for our bank information, but the NFF has worked hard to guarantee that we received our qualifying and transportation incentives. I'm currently looking forward to receiving my World Cup bonuses.
Seven months after camping at the Women's Africa Cup of Nations in Morocco, our correspondent also learned that women's national team members and staff members had received their bonuses.
The Falcons can now devote all of their attention to getting ready for the 2023 Women's World Cup, starting with their participation in the inaugural Revelation Cup in Leon, Mexico, which starts on Wednesday.
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The hosts Mexico, Costa Rica, and Colombia are also participants in the four-nation competition with the nine-time African champions.
Kwara Falcons and 11 others set for BAL battle.
The Basketball Africa League revealed the top 12 club clubs from 12 different African nations on Monday. The 2023 BAL season will begin on March 11 at the Dakar Arena in Dakar, Senegal, and will once again include 38 games spread out over three months in Dakar, Cairo, and Kigali.
US Monastir (Tunisia), the reigning BAL champion, is one of the 12 teams, along with five other teams from the 2022 season. Abidjan Basket Club (Ivory Coast), Al Ahly (Egypt), City Oilers (Uganda), Kwara Falcons (Nigeria), and Stade Malien are the five teams that will participate in the BAL for the first season (Mali). Following their participation in the competition's debut season in 2021, AS Douanes (Senegal) are back.
On March 11, AS Douanes will play Abidjan Basket Club, and on March 12, US Monastir will face Stade Malien in the first game of their title defense.
The Sahara Conference and the Nile Conference will once more be formed out of the 12 teams. Each team will play the other five teams in their conference once throughout the 15-game group phase of each conference's schedule. The group stage of the Sahara Conference will be held at the Dakar Arena from March 11 to March 21, and the group stage of the Nile Conference will be held in the Hassan Mostafa Indoor Sports Complex in Cairo from April 26 to May 6. The top four teams from each conference will advance to the BAL Playoffs and Finals, which will take place from May 21 to May 27 in Kigali's BK Arena.