Sports Minister, Bolaji Abdulahi, says the National Sports Commission (NSC) will never neglect any ailing athlete who has at one time or the other represented the country.
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The minister spoke through Bolaji Ojo-Oba, a Director in the NSC, on Thursday in Benin, while presenting N1 million cash as medical assistance to ex- international, Sunday Eboigbe, who had been down with stroke.
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"It is the new thinking in the NSC that our past athletes will not be forgotten, because they are our heroes and heroines.
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According to him, it is not in our character to abandon our past heroes.
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"We will always respond to their distress calls, whenever we hear of their calls for assistance, while they are still alive."
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"We only got to know of Eboigbe's ailment last week and here I am, directed by the minister to show our concern.