Mr Nuhu highlighted the potential financial rewards of competing in the ECOWAS Marathon
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. “We have a very good chance of winning about eight of the top ten positions in the ECOWAS race because it is a half marathon. For example, if our club produces the winners of the men’s and women’s races, that’s $10,000 each, which comes to about N40 million in today’s exchange rate. We can’t get that kind of money elsewhere.”
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