By Godwin Aikigbe SAMDA is making some progress in team building and will, in the coming days, announce partnerships with top global icons and organizations. This is according to the CEO and founder, Tony Kona Fele, who is currently attending the World Bank Group and International Monetary Fund 2023 Spring Meetings in Washington, DC. Fele […]
By Godwin Aikigbe SAMDA keeps waxing across the globe, with Saturday’s launch of its USA-based soccer program in Minnesota recording a landmark success. The CEO of SAMDA, Tony Kona Fele, has against this backdrop expressed his delight at the massive and memorable event, which further accentuated the meteoric rise and spread of the non-profit organization […]
By Godwin Aikigbe The Chief Executive Officer and Founder of SAMDA, Tony Kona Fele, has patted the Cameroon team on the back following the conclusion of phase one of the football tournament in the country. Elated Fele expressed his contentment in a short statement after the curtains were drawn on the first stage of the […]
By Godwin Aikigbe Saclepea-Mah Development Association (SAMDA) will make its debut at Spring Meetings of the World Bank Group and the IMF, following its invitation to the 2023 edition that will take place in Washington, D.C., from April 10 to April 16, 2023. According to the letter of invitation dated Thursday, March 30, 2023, and […]
By Godwin Aikigbe SAMDA’s spread across Africa remains on the spiral as Cote d’Ivoire team held its first meeting on Saturday, March 26, 2023. According to a report, the meeting, which held at Basam, Abidjan, had 17 people in attendance and ran from 10:53 a.m. through 14:45 p.m. The exercise produced laudable resolutions, notable among […]
By Godwin Aikigbe SAMDA is unrelenting in its quest to impact the lives of African youths positively through sports. The CEO and founder of the non-profit organization, Tony Kona Fele, reaffirmed this on Thursday while expressing satisfaction with the ongoing football tournaments in Cameroon featuring male and female students from secondary schools across the country. […]
All protocol is respected. All administrative, sporting, academic, and religious authorities present.The Founder/CEO of SAMDA in absentia.Dear Sportsmen and Women, ladies and gentlemen, It is my singular pleasure as the Director of SAMDA Cameroon to welcome you to the launch ceremony of the first ever football competition organized here at the Military Camp Football Field […]
By Godwin Aikigbe Chief Executive Officer and Founder, SAMDA, Tony Kona Fele, has showered the Cameroon chapter with encomiums for taking a lead in the African Soccer Programme. Fele in a release on Saturday, expressed his gratitude to Cameroon in the wake of commencement of the exercise featuring secondary school students across Africa, notably among […]
Your Imperial Majesty, to welcome your guests who have journeyed from all the horizons of Africa and no doubt be worthy of this historical gathering, Addis Ababa and all the glorious Ethiopian people whom you incarnate, are adorned with the purest and most legendary hospitality. You have welcomed us all, many as we are, such […]
In the history of the African peoples – the living demonstration of vitality and the consequence of the multifarious activities of our societies that are constantly in search of freedom and happiness – this Conference of Heads of State or of Governments will stand out as one of the affirmations of their common destiny one […]
Ladies and Gentlemen: Your Imperial Majesty, Mr. President, Excellencies, Ladies, and Gentlemen Having followed with growing interest the statements of my illustrious colleagues, I wondered as I came to this rostrum, whether it would not be extremely reasonable on my part to make the shortest speech of my whole political career, saying to you quite […]
Your Imperial Majesty, Mr President, Your Excellencies, First, I want to express the thanks of my country to your Imperial Majesty, the Imperial Majesty’s Government and the people of Ethiopia for the warm reception which they have given to my delegation and myself. The presence of almost all the Heads of the African States and […]
Your Excellencies, Colleagues, Brothers and Friends, At the first gathering of African Heads of State, to which I had the honour of playing host, there were representatives of eight independent States only. Today, five years later, we meet as the representatives of no less than thirty-two States, the guests of His Imperial Majesty, Haile Selassie, […]
By Godwin Aikigbe After a turbulent 2022, SAMDA is setting the ball rolling on all fronts. One of its immediate plans is a boxing tournament in Ivory Coast, a tribute to the country’s first president, Félix Houphout-Boigny, who served from 1960 until his death in 1993. Chief Executive Officer, Tony Kona Fele, made this disclosure […]
By Godwin Aikigbe SAMDA will launch its sports programmes in April in Ghana with the Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Football Tournament, featuring the U20 men’s and women’s teams from Nigeria, Cameroon, Liberia, and Ghana. On the back of this will be a similar tournament in Nigeria as a tribute to the first Prime Minister of Nigeria, […]
By Godwin Aikigbe SAMDA Nigeria ensured that the 40 Days Prayer Service for its late Secretary-General of the Nigerian Chapter, Ganiyu Olarenwaju Akanni, on Tuesday, December 20, was one to remember by kitting the teams that took part in the memorial match at Love Gardens Hall in Surulere, Lagos State. Chairman of SAMDA Nigeria, Taju […]
By Godwin Aikigbe SAMDA is in grief following the demise of the secretary-general of its Nigerian team, Ganiyu Akanni, who passed on November 10 in Lagos, Nigeria, after a brief illness. The amiable Akanni, an ex-Nigeria international who shone in the colours of several clubs in the Nigerian top flight, notably Julius Berger FC of […]
By Godwin Aikigbe The Nigerian chapter of Saclepea-Mah Development Association (SAMDA) has intensified its efforts to enhance grassroots sports development across Africa by sealing a pact with Lagos State Football Association, Youth Sports Federation of Nigeria, and Professional Footballers Association of Nigeria. Tajudeen Disu, the African director of sports and chairman of the Nigeria chapter […]
•Disu (left) with SAMDA Ghana chairman, David Ameyibor. By Godwin Aikigbe Chairman, SAMDA Sports Africa, Tajudeen Disu, is full of accolades for SAMDA Ghana for its superb launch of its sports programme. The former Nigeria defender who doubles as chairman, SAMDA Nigeria, is having good times in Ghana since arriving in the West African country […]
SAMDA will support existing and emerging educational activities in the target region that are designed to serve individuals in life-skills development, basic career-tech training for workforce preparation, adult literacy