FG Gifts 4 Eagles ’94 Players Houses

The Federal Government on Tuesday redeemed its houses allocation pledge to four of the 22 Super Eagles squad that won the 1994 African Cup of Nations.

The beneficiaries of a three-bedroom apartment each at the National Housing site situated at Onidundu, Ibadan, are Ike Shoroumu; Finidi George; Mutiu Adepoju and Dr Akin Amao (the players’ medical personnel).

President Muhammadu Buhari had in March announced the redemption of the promise made by the Federal Government in 1994 when the players defeated the Zambian National Team to win the Nation’s Cup.

The Minister of Works and Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola, while handing over the houses’ keys to the beneficiaries, said they were among the first set of Nigerians to be given keys to the houses promised them by the Federal Government 28 years ago.

Fashola was represented by Mr Adesola Gbolahan, the Oyo State Controller of Housing, Federal Ministry of Works and Housing at the ceremony held within the premises of the Housing Estate on Kilometres 17, Onidundu, Ibadan.

The minister said the first phase of the project in Ibadan, comprising 48 units of two-bedroom and three-bedroom apartments, had been completed.