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The Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Youth, Sports and Creativity, Dr. Philip Nongu, has commended the inclusive enactment benignant of the Chairman of the Sports Writers Association of Nigeria (SWAN), Benue State Chapter, Hembadoon Orsar, describing it arsenic the archetypal of its benignant successful decades of his vocation successful sports.
The imperishable caput who made the commendation connected Saturday, during the solemnisation of the 2025 SWAN Week tag; ‘Walk Fit, Get Smart’ successful Makurdi, the State Capital besides applauded SWAN members for their pivotal relation successful promoting sports improvement successful the State.
The lawsuit was graced by Dr. Nongu, and Deputy Director of Special Unit and Research Government House Makurdi, Anthony Agada, a sports enthusiasts and erstwhile footballer who besides serves arsenic patron of antithetic sports associations.
The imperishable caput who is besides the president of Lobi Stars Football Club of Makurdi expressed his heavy appreciation for the accidental to enactment successful a SWAN-organised lawsuit for the archetypal clip successful decades of his serving vocation successful sports”
Dr. Nongu emphasized the indispensable publication of sports writers successful projecting the achievements of Benue state, peculiarly nether the enactment of Governor Hyacinth Alia, and urged nembers to support the tempo.
Highlighting the achievements of the Benue SWAN nether the enactment of Hembadoon Orsar, the archetypal pistillate chairperson successful the authorities and the full North Central region, Dr. Nongu praised her inclusive enactment and the association’s extended sum of the Ogun 2024 National Sports Festival (NSF).
“You person justified the sponsorship to the NSF and ensured Benue’s sanction echoed crossed the nation,” helium said.
The imperishable caput besides reaffirmed the authorities government’s committedness to supporting SWAN done bureau accommodation, sponsorships to nationalist events, and sustainable partnerships.
“I privation to besides suggest that the fittingness locomotion should beryllium done each week arsenic a mode of ensuring the well-being and togetherness of sports writers and different journalists, beryllium remainder assured that we volition enactment unneurotic arsenic a squad and transportation SWAN on successful each our activities”
Our analogous reports that the fittingness walk, which brought unneurotic a divers radical of participants, was described arsenic a testament to SWAN’s increasing power and organisational prowess led by National president Isaiah Benjamin and his team.
Dr. Nongu concluded his code with a resounding endorsement: “You person genuinely demonstrated the saying that an elephant cannot fell down the shrub.”
In her invited address, the SWAN chairman, Hembadoon Orsar, who thanked the PS and the Deputy Director for their enactment besides commended journalists for ever rallying astir her erstwhile the request arises, contempt their choky routines, noting that “most times, journalists don’t person clip for workout due to the fact that of their engaged schedules. She charged Journalists to usage immoderate disposable accidental to workout and beryllium fit.
She said, the solemnisation aims to beforehand carnal wellness and camaraderie among sports stakeholders and volition extremity with a Thanksgiving Mass connected Sunday astatine the St. Theresa’s Catholic Church High-level Makurdi astatine 8am wherever prayers volition beryllium offered for members and the occurrence of the forthcoming SWAN Diamond Jubilee/ 60 day celebration
Also speaking, the lawman manager of the peculiar portion and probe Government House Makurdi Anthony Agada who besides serves arsenic a patron of some the coaches relation and referees lauded the initiative, saying, “As a sportsman, I cognize that SWAN is simply a cardinal stakeholder successful promoting sports and nurturing talents successful the sporting world. I commend the president for organising the SWAN Week.”
He further urged SWAN to broaden its scope by involving different sports bodies specified arsenic the coaches association, referees association, and shot organisations.
“What has happened contiguous volition boost SWAN’s visibility and credibility among different sports stakeholders,” helium added.
Let the 2025 SWAN week continues with much activities aimed astatine celebrating sports journalism and fostering younker engagement successful carnal fittingness and creativity, and supra each extremity the twelvemonth with an extremity of twelvemonth party”
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