President Muhammadu Buhari has two major assignments to perform today, Wednesday, November 11, 2015. The first is the swearing-in of his Ministers and also allocating portfolios to them and the second is to receive the victorious Golden Eaglets who will be landing in Abuja airport by 3pm.
Buhari, it would be recalled, was Nigeria’s military ruler when the Eaglets, then captained by Nduka Ugbade, first won the cup 30 years ago. Back again as a democratically elected leader, the Eaglets whom he named ‘Golden Eaglets’ at that time have just repeated the feat again in Chile.
We learnt that they will be handsomely rewarded and sumptuously feted. Likewise members of the pioneer group who didn’t benefit much due to Buhari’s ouster barely two weeks later by Gen. Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida, rtd.