The Northern Angami area in Nagaland started 2024 with a number of neighborhood occasions, highlighted by a youth revival convention and at the least three sports activities meets.
The thirty fourth annual sports activities meet of the Northern Angami Youth and Sports activities Affiliation (NAYSA-C) started on January 22 at Meriema village, with 12 villages and 9 groups collaborating. Chief Visitor Ruokuotuolie Mere, Vice President of the NDPP Kohima Area, emphasised good sportsmanship and highlighted ladies’s contributions to Northeast sports activities. He particularly addressed the necessity for growing skilled referees and coaches in Nagaland. The opening ceremony, hosted by Aneizo Keditsu and Medolenuo Ambrosia Loucü, started with an invocation blessing from Rev. Keduolhoulie Shüya. The occasion featured leisure by Vilavor Loucii and an oath-taking ceremony performed by Luoselie Phewhuo.
A day earlier, the Northern Angami Youth & Sports activities Affiliation Group-D launched its thirty third meet at Botsa & Tsiemekhuma Basa Floor. Transport Advisor Temjenmenba highlighted sports activities’ function in neighborhood unity and rising investor curiosity in Nagaland. NAYSA-D common secretary Kezhangulie Kire led the programme, which included launching tracksuits and jerseys for the 2025 NAYSA-D Meet.
The eighty fifth annual sports activities meet of the Kigwema Youth Group (KYO) concluded on Wednesday, January 22, 2025, at Kholera, Kigwema Floor. The three-day occasion featured soccer, volleyball, sepaktakraw, and tug of warfare competitions. Merama Khel dominated males’s occasions, securing victories in soccer in opposition to Kipho-Seca Khel, volleyball, and sepaktakraw. Makhuma Khel triumphed in ladies’s soccer, sepaktakraw, and tug of warfare, whereas Khamima Khel claimed the ladies’s volleyball title. The Kohima District Soccer Referee Affiliation and Volleyball Affiliation officiated the matches.
On the KYO closing ceremony, Southern Angami Sports activities Affiliation president Dr. Vimezo Kere urged youth to pursue excellence past village-level competitions, emphasising Kigwema’s legacy and youth management in sports activities, teachers, and character constructing. ASA president Ruokuovikho Chale and SAYO president Zasitsolie Beio served as particular visitor and match patron respectively.
Earlier within the month, from January 10-12, the Northern Angami Christian Revival Youth Fellowship (NACRYF) held its triennial thirty fourth convention at Christian Revival Church, Meriema’s new floor. The occasion, broadcast dwell by Vi Tect firm, centered on themes from the E book of Zechariah. Drawing 591 delegates from 28 church buildings, the convention featured messages from Rev. Dr. Neikedozo Paphino, President of CRC Worldwide, Rev. Khrieo Mezhü of Rüsoma CRC, and different famend audio system. Led by Ruokuovituo Pienyii, with Pastor Neilakuolie Huozha internet hosting the NACRYF Flag, the programme featured Zhapu Mere and Menguphrenuo Kelelie as cantor and pianist. The convention concluded with devotional companies chaired by Pelevotuo Solo and Visakholie Rüpreo, that includes performances from eleven church choirs together with CYE NCRC Gariphema and CYE CRC Gariphema Basa.
The Angamis, one in every of Nagaland’s main Naga tribes predominantly residing in and round Kohima district, embraced Christianity within the late nineteenth century by American Baptist missionaries. The tribe continues to keep up sturdy non secular and cultural traditions by such neighborhood gatherings.
