Pics: GEJ on the phone encouraging U20 Falconets to go for gold tomorrow

President Jonathan, who's currently in Germany, is pictured above speaking on the Phone with Nigeria's U20 Falconets that are participating in the 2014 FIFA Under-20 Women's World Cup in Montreal, Canada.  The footballers are going to be playing against their German counterparts tomorrow August 24th in the finals of the football tournament.  In the Telephone conversation, President Jonathan acknowledged that the Falconets did a great job to reach the finals, urged them to beat Germany and promised them a heroine welcome. 

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President GEJ honours Nigerian athlete, Blessing Okagbare

President Jonathan today September 11th honoured Africa's fastest woman, Blessing Okagbare. The Olympic and world Athletics Championship medalist was rewarded for her impressive performance at the recently concluded 2013 World Athletic Championship in Moscow. Blessing won the silver medal in the long jump and also placed third in the Women’s 200m race.

President Jonathan said Blessing, who is Africa's 100m record holder, and her coach would be considered for national honours and announced a cash gift of N3 million for her and N3.5million for her coach