Nations around the world utilized Sunday to celebrate mothers around the world. Nigerian sports was not left out of the party as various mothers of fallen heroes were celebrated in the spirit of motherhood .
The ancestral home of late Nigerian runner Sunday Bada, in Ijumu Local Government Area of Kogi State came alive on Sunday as his mother Mrs Funmilayo Bada got a soul-lifting gifts of N50,000 and food items such as rice, semovita and beverages from Youth and Sports Development Minister Mr Sunday Dare.
In order to make the mothers feel loved and not feel the impart of their departed sons, the sports minister extended his hands of love. The gesture is part of Dare’s commitment to assisting mothers of fallen stars that had contributed to the development of Nigerian Sports.
Mrs Bada expressed gratitude to the Minister for lending support to her , especially on Mothers’ Day. She was delighted that the Minister deemed it fit to assist her years after the passage of her son.
Bada died on December 12th 2011. He was a member of the 4×400 relay team that won a gold medal for Nigeria at the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games. He also won the 400m gold at the IAAF World Indoor Championships in Paris, France in 1997 after winning silver twice. Until his death, he was the Technical Director of the Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN).
Dare had earlier extended the same gesture to the mothers of Rashidi Yekini and Samuel Okwaraji, but Bada’s mum is the first beneficiary outside footballers’ mothers
