Confederation of Africa Athletics appoints Nesiama athletics referee for 2023 African Games

The former Technical Director of the Athletics Federation of Nigeria, (AFN), retired Navy Commodore Omatseye Nesiama, has been appointed as Referee for the athletics events of the African Games.

The 13th African Games scheduled for March 8th to 23rd will take place in three Ghanaian cities of Accra, Cape Coast and Kumasi.

Omatseye Nesiama, the Director of Arco Worldwide Services Ltd is among the highest graded Technical Officials in the continent having attained the enviable World Athletics Silver level status.

Nesiama was later appointed into the Confederation of Africa Athletics (CAA) Technical Officials Panel in 2017 and trained the Ghanaian Technical Officials in preparation for the continental sporting showpiece ; the Africa Games.

Commodore Nesiama, Chairman of
MAST S & T Nigeria, has proved his mettle as a renowned technical official at various continental competitions.

Nesiama who is also the Executive Vice Chairman, Top-Private Security Services Ltd presided over the Africa U-18, U-20 and the Senior Athletics championship at different times and was the competition Director for the first ever Africa Youth Championships (U-18) held in 2013 at Warri, Delta State.

Nesiama is on record to be the first Nigerian to have passed the qualifying examination to be licensed as a World Athletics Athletes’ Representative when it was introduced in 2011.

The retired military officer with a masters degree in PLA National Defence University, Beijing, is a World Atletics certified technical officials’ lecturer and has been a member of the CAA Technical and Competitions Commission since 2014.

When asked how he felt about the appointment, Commodore Nesiama said he his quite happy about the recognition and nomination by CAA.

He promised to do his best to ensure his performance in the areas assigned that would attract more accolades to the pride of Nigeria as his country.

He also believes it would inspire more athletic lovers to take up technical officiating.