{"id":224756,"date":"2026-01-23T07:31:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T07:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/23\/nigeria-bayelsa-athletics-association-gets-new-chairman\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T07:31:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T07:31:21","slug":"nigeria-bayelsa-athletics-association-gets-new-chairman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/23\/nigeria-bayelsa-athletics-association-gets-new-chairman\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Bayelsa Athletics Association Gets New Chairman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">Kolawole Oredipe, the immediate past vice-chairman of the association, took over from Godwin Oghogho, whose tenure had elapsed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">A board member of the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.athleticsnigeria.org\/afn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Athletics Federation of Nigeria<\/a><\/strong>, Kolawole Oredipe, has emerged as the new chairman of the Bayelsa Athletics Association.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">Mr Oredipe, the immediate past vice-chairman of the association, took over from Godwin Oghogho, whose tenure had elapsed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">A letter of appointment signed by the Director of Sports, Bayelsa Sports Council, Andrew Aye, stated that Mr Oredipe&#8217;s elevation to chairman followed his contributions to the development of athletics in the state over the past five years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">Mr Aye urged Mr Oredipe to continue working with key stakeholders in the sport to achieve greater progress.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">According to the letter, Mr Oredipe, a seasoned broadcaster and the director-general of the state&#8217;s New Media, founded SamKay Athletics Club, Yenagoa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Over the years, the club has discovered and nurtured young Bayelsa track-and-field athletes who have gone on to represent the state at both national and international levels.<\/p>\n<p><!--\/.story-footer-link--><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601230049.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kolawole Oredipe, the immediate past vice-chairman of the association, took over from Godwin Oghogho, whose tenure had elapsed. A board member of the Athletics Federation of Nigeria, Kolawole Oredipe, has emerged as the new chairman of the Bayelsa Athletics Association. Mr Oredipe, the immediate past vice-chairman of the association, took over from Godwin Oghogho, whose [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":224757,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6802],"tags":[151,72,155,157,153,88,314,152,161,156,154,158,232],"class_list":{"0":"post-224756","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-athetics","8":"tag-africa","9":"tag-athletics","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-current-events","12":"tag-economy","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-nigeria","15":"tag-politics","16":"tag-sport","17":"tag-sports","18":"tag-trade","19":"tag-travel","20":"tag-west-africa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}