The Federal Government on Wednesday announced financial rewards to Nigeria paralympic athletes ahead of 2024 Paralympic Games scheduled to commence next week.
Team Nigeria athletes are currently on a training tour of Germany preparing for the games.
Nigeria will participate in four sports; athletics, badminton, para-powerlifting and para table tennis.
Minister Watching The Athletes in Training
Secretary General of the Paralympic Committee of Nigeria (PCN), Suleiman Isah, said that the Minister of Sports, John Enoh has promised monetary rewards to the athletes in order to boost their morale.
“We are ready, Team Nigeria is ready to make the nation proud in Paris. There is no injury nor crisis in camp, so we are good to go.
“The Minister of Sports, has assured monetary rewards to the athletes that excel at the games.
“He promised every gold medal the sum of $15,000 (about N23,600,550.00), silver medal $10,000 (about N15,733,700.00) and bronze medal $5,000 (about N7,866,850.00).
“This will serve as motivation for the athletes, so we expect all the athletes to do well at the games,” Isah said.
He, however, called on all Nigerians to support the team.
“We appeal to all Nigerians home and abroad to continue to support us with prayers, we promise we will not let the county down,” Isah said.
Also, the head coach, Nasiru Sule said that the atmosphere is calm and conducive with all the athletes ready to explode and compete at the games.
According to the Atlanta Paralympics Games bronze medalist in table tennis, “the athletes have been training well and vigorously too in order to make the country proud at the games.
“We are in high spirits and battle ready to go. The training has been going well as planned and I will want to thank the Paralympic Committee Nigeria (PCN) leadership for their focus and planning towards the camping exercise and I am optimistic that we are coming home with medals.
“Though I can not say precisely how many or which colour, but with the determination of the athletes in camp, the future is bright for us,” he said.
It would be recalled that Team Nigeria para athletes won ten medals at the last Games held in Tokyo, Japan in 2020.
