The 1999 class of Super Falcons, largely regarded as the Golden Generation of the country’s women footballers, appears to be split into two groups following a N10m gift from Air Peace CEO Allen Onyema last September.
Our correspondent learnt that Onyema had gifted the said sum to the entire 1999 Falcons, the only side to have reached the quarter-finals of the Women’s World Cup, during an award ceremony organised by the Nigeria Football Federation to honour the squad.
However, some members of the squad allegedly shared the money amongst themselves, excluding five others – captain Florence Omagbemi, Patience Avre, Prisca Emeafu, Kikelomo Ajayi and Eberechi Opara, who were absent at the event.
An angry Avre, who is now based in the US, stated in a Facebook video post that she would not give up until she was given her share of the money.
She told The PUNCH that she was invited for the event in Lagos but couldn’t travel down after she gave birth and her mother was hospitalised.
She said, “Key players in the team casted votes and voted five of us out and they shared the money amongst themselves,” Avre lamented in the video.
