The Tide Editor Celebrates 50th Birthday In Grand Style

It was history making day
last Sunday, July 6, 2014
as the Deputy News Editor of The Tide Newspaper, Dr Alpheaus Paul-Worika celebrated his 50th Birthday in grand style. The event was marked with spiritual blessings and upliftment as well as merriment.
The day started with a church service at St Mark’s Anglican Church, Borokiri Port Harcourt, where the Vicar of the church, Venerable Boma Briggs preached the sermon and thanked God for the life and achievements of the celebrant.
After the well attended church service came the grand reception at the prestigious Spring Gardens along Dr Peter Odili Road, Trans-Amadi, Port Harcourt.
The highpoint of the event was the cutting of the Birthday cake by the celebrant which was preceded by a toast proposed by Basoene Dick-Iruenabere who described Dr Paul Worika as “unassuming gentleman, astute, meticulous and highly intelligent.”
He stressed that the celebrant is also a humble fellow who assiduously strives to achieve set goals.
According to him, the celebrant’s friendly disposition is what attracted the large number of guests who had all come to appreciate his large heart.
He also noted that the golden celebration was well deserved and sign of more good things to him and his family.
The distinguished personalities that attended the event were all lavishly entertained with sumptuous  delicacies and choice drinks as well as music and dance.
The Couckin Production band led by Mr  Adokiye Couckin Iyaye thrilled the guests with captivating songs and danceable beats that saw some of the guests on the dance floor to share the moment of joy with the celebrant and family.
Among the personalities that attended the event were the Senator representing the Rivers East Senatorial District in the National Assembly, Chief George Thompson Sekibo, the General Manager of Rivers State Newspaper corporation, Mr Celestine Ogolo, the Chairman, Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ), Rivers State Council, Mr Opaka Dokubo, The Tide family and other colleagues in the pen profession as well as other distinguished personalities too numerous to list here.
The celebrant thanked the guests for attending the event and the honour done him and his family.
He noted that without their support, the occasion would not have been such a huge success.
Dr Alpheaus Paul-Worika also thanked God for his abundant blessings and paid tributes to his wife’s elder brother, late Deacon Tamunosiki Awo in whose honour a minute silence was observed by the guests.
He thanked God for his wife, Mrs Orolobo Paul-Worika for her perseverance, love and care which he said served as major inspiration that led to his successes.

Dr Alpheaus Paul-Worika and family cutting his Birthday Cake, last Sunday