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Friday, February 24, 2017

Who is a journalist and a Sports Writer between Mitchell Obi to Honour Sirawoo

Who is a journalist and a Sports Writer between Mitchel Obi and Honour Sirawoo.                                                                                                

MITCHEL OBI
Mitchell worked in The Guardian as Sports Editor in 1984. He became Deputy Editor of The Guardian Express in 1987 and same year became the Editor of The Guardian Express.
He also edited The Guardian on Sunday in acting capacity for six months. He was also a member of the Guild of Editors and for the record he signed The Guardian on the day Chief Obafemi Awolowo passed on.
He was appointed by President Babaginda as Special Adviser to the Minister of Youth Sports in I990 the then equivalent of Junior Minister.
He pioneered Mastersports on NTA in 1994 and was the first anchor of the show.
Anchored the award winning live sports show Sports Extra on AIT for over 18 years.
Handled the best radio sports show in the country on Ray Power.
Studied at the University of Ife and University of Côte d'Ivoire with Bachelor’s degree and higher Diploma.
Attended the Nigeria Institute of Journalism for Advanced Writing and Reporting.
Was voted as President, African Sports Journalists Union in 2003. In 2013, he won election as vice president of the International Sports Press Association (AIPS). He is currently the president of the AIPS, Africa, a position he would re-contest unopposed in October 2017 whether Honour Sirawoo likes it or not, Insha Alahu (God’s willing). 
He has covered over 250 international competitions across the world in the last 34 years which includes the Olympics, Commonwealth Games, World Championships, World Athletic Championships, the All Africa Games, FIFA World Cups, African Nations Cups, Uefa Champions League, CAF Champions League, US Open, Wimbledon finals, Australia Open finals, French Open finals and several others.
The current Managing Director of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), Mr. Bayo Onanuga, worked as a reporter under Mitchel Obi at The Guardian newspaper. 

HONOUR SIRAWOO: From 2001 to 2011, Honour Sirawoo served as Public Relation Officer of Operation Flush, a Port Harcourt based security outfit, He later moved to the Rivers State Government House as Chief Press Secretary to Rivers Deputy Governor until 2011.
From 2011 to 2015 he was at NDDC as Press Secretary to the Chairman.
In 2015, after a failed gubernatorial campaign with Alaibe, he was employed as a Civil servant at Rivers State Television,not on the Sports Desk, where he had worked before 2001 before his movement to the government house from 2001 to 2011.
In 2013, when the last SWAN registration that expired in December 2016 was done, Honour Sirawo, had no job because he was sacked outright from the civil service for alleged insubordination and disrespect to the Commissioner for Information, Mrs. Ibim Semenitari. You can confirm this from Mrs. Semenitari. Afterwards he did not have any job until Senator Magnus Abe engaged him to work with him at NDDC and in APC. Possible that was why is SWAN ID card looks suspicious.

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