Also speaking, Governor Okowa, through Olorogun David Edevbie, commended the gesture by Brownhill Foundation and also charged the school to put the facilities into good use and ensure properly maintenance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis is a very good gesture and I must commend Mr Pinnick and his Foundation for this laudable project. A lot of people don\u2019t understand what sports have become. In the more developed nations, sport is seen as big business. I believe it is not only Hussey College that will benefit from this project; the whole of Delta State will,\u201d Edevbie posited.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chairman of the Old Students Association of Hussey College, Emmanuel Ogidi also joined in the commendations whilst encouraging the students to ensure they protect and help maintain the facilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brownhill, through its chairman Anthony Bekederemo used the occasion to announce that 23 students from the college will benefit from scholarships from the Foundation. The foundation also gave out Volleyball jerseys and balls to the school. In a show of appreciation to his chemistry teacher, Mrs. Mercy Onuwaje, who according to him played a major role in his educational development, Mr Pinnick handed her the keys to a brand new car. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also to commemorate the event, a novelty match was played between Hussey College Old Students and ex-internationals which paraded stars like Christian Obodo, Sam Sodje, Joseph Yobo, Austin Eguavoen, Clement Temile, Austin Popo, Baldwin Bazuaye to name a few. The game ended 1-1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

President of the Nigeria Football Federation, Mr Amaju Melvin Pinnick signed off his 50th birthday celebrations in grand style at the weekend with the presentation of a brand new football pitch (complete with a 250-seater pavilion), a volleyball court, and two blocks of classrooms to his Alma Mater, Hussey Model College, Warri, Delta State. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2915,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,2],"tags":[129,492,235,996,995],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2913"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2913"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2916,"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2913\/revisions\/2916"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}