Super Eagles beat the Stallions of Burkina Faso 1-0 on Sunday at the finals in Soweto, South Africa to clinch the title of African champions. The Nigerian telecoms and oil tycoon announced the donation shortly after the team’s victory over Burkina Faso’s Stallions. Adenuga also gave the team’s coach, Stephen Keshi, $200,000 cash and offered to pay the coach’s $32,000 monthly salary from his pocket.
Adenuga’s gift comes a few days after Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, rewarded the Nigerian team with an $820,000 (N130 million) cash gift for making it to the finals of the competition.
Mike Adenuga, chairman of Globacom, Nigeria’s second largest mobile telecoms operator, has been one of the strongest financial pillars of Nigerian football. Last month his telecoms company signed a four-year title sponsorship deal with the Nigerian Premier League (NPL) for $16.5 million.
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