Nigerian women's team protest outside parliament at unpaid victory bonuses


ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria's national women's soccer team, the Super Falcons, demonstrated outside parliament on Wednesday to demand they receive unpaid bonuses for winning Africa's international championship an eighth time.

More than a dozen members of the football team, decked out in the national colours of green and white and bearing placards, protested outside the National Assembly in the capital Abuja together with their supporters.

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