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CONGRATULATIONS to Nigel Dabinyaba, the first PNG footballer to sign a professional contract since the 1990s, for scoring twice in his first two starting appearances for Penang in the Malaysian Super League.

AND to the Under 17 PNG team, you have done the country proud with the results despite not qualifying. It could have gone either way, with the New Zealand team leaving that winning goal very late.

MORESBY Arts Theatre will host a dramatised study ‘Meisoga”, of the culture of the Meisoga people on Misima Island in Milne Bay, starting March 16.  The play is special for many reasons. It is a play about PNG culture and traditions. It has a Papua New Guinean cast.

AND it is written by a Papua New Guinean. And most special of all, it is written by 16-year old student, Andrew Kuliniasi. This is Andrew’s second time to direct a play at MAT, with the first one being “Hercules” in 2015.

THE story is about how the Meisoga clan came to be on the island of Misima in Milne Bay. The Meisoga is one of the biggest clans on Misima Island and the word Meisoga itself means Sea Eagle. It is set in the time before the Missionaries came to PNG. In PNG we’d say “all tumbuna time.”

WE bring you back 10 years ago to what hit the front page of your daily newspaper. It was news on the State of Emergency (SoE) in Southern Highlands. Then Inter-Government Relations Minister Sam Abal slammed Members of Parliament as ‘full of talk but no action’ after Parliament failed to extend the SoE.

ROBERT Stephenson Smyth-Powell was a British army officer and founder of the Boy Scouts and Girl Guides, later the Girl Scouts. He was a hero of the South African War and author of Aids to Scouting, a military textbook.

QUOTE of the day: Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns. – George Eliot (1819-1880)