OYDC hosts president Edgar Lungu - OYDC Zambia

08 May

OYDC hosts president Edgar Lungu

By Noah Silomba Lifestyle, News, Sport 0 Comments

The OYDC this morning hosted president H.E President Edgar C. Lungu, who came to launch the 2019 Health Week organised by the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Youth, Sport and Child Development.

The president was received by cabinet ministers, permanent secretaries, state house officials and other senior government officials.

Upon arriving at the OYDC, the president was presented with a judo muscot from the International Judo Federation (IJF) and it was handed to him by National Olympic Committee of Zambia (NOCZ) president Alfred Foloko, who is also Zambia Judo Association (ZJA) president.

While at OYDC, president Lungu, took the time to tour various health and Sports stands currently exhibiting at the multsports facility.

The president further participated in aerobics, relay and penalty shoot out.

The National Health Week which started on Monday will come to a close on 11 May, 2019.

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Noah Silomba is a Zambian-born Lusaka-based professional journalist with many years of experience in media, sport & corporate communication, digital & social media marketing and web management. Ranked 5th in Africa for the 2021 AIPS Sport Media Awards in Photography Sports Action and is a two times media awards nominee (photography sports action & best writing colour piece) categories for the years 2020 and 2021 under the International Sports Press Association (AIPS) Lausanne, Switzerland. In 2024 Silomba was certified as the finalist for the sixth edition of the Run for Art photography contest in the category; Sport and urban environment by the Fondazione Giulio Onesti in Rome, Italy. He is also part of Cohort A for 2022 Africa Media Agency (AMA) Academy training in digital media and marketing.

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