Aveau Niko Palamo

Niko Palamo
Member of the Samoa Parliament for Faleata East
In office 4 March 2011 – 4 March 2016
Preceded by	Patau'ave Etuale
Succeeded by	Salausa John Ah Ching
Personal details
Political party	Tautua Samoa Party

Niko Palamo

Birth name	Aveau Tuala Lepale Niko Faitala Palamo
Date of birth	date of birth unknown
Place of birth	Samoa
Notable relative(s)	Toetu Palamo, Mefi Palamo, Arona Palamo
Rugby union career
Position(s) Centre Senior career Years Team Apps (Points) 197?-198? Marist St. Joseph () International career Years Team Apps (Points) 1979-1986 Samoa 14 (4) Coaching career Years Team 2008-2009 Samoa

Aveau Tuala Lepale Niko Faitala Palamo is a Samoan rugby player, judge, politician and former member of the Legislative Assembly of Samoa. He is a member of the Tautua Samoa Party.

Aveau is a former Manu Samoa 15s and 7s rugby player and coach.^[1] He was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Samoa in the 2011 election, representing the constituency of Faleata East.^[2] Aveau beat 3 other candidates from the villages of Vaimoso, Lepea and Vailoa to gain the seat, with a convincing win of more than 200 votes over the second place candidate from Lepea. He ran again in the 2016 election,^[3] but was unsuccessful.

Following his departure from politics Palamo coached the Samoa women's national rugby union team.^[4] In May 2018 he was appointed Director of the 2019 Pacific Games Committee,^[5] but he resigned in November of that year due to differences with the committee.^[6][7]

In December 2019 Palamo was appointed as a judge of the Lands and Titles court.^[8]

References

1. Mathew Lemisio (15 January 2008). "Rugby: Palamo new Coach for Manu Samoa". New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 27 December 2020.
2. "Samoa election results coming in slowly". RNZ. 5 March 2011. Retrieved 27 December 2020.
3. Diedre Fanene (24 February 2016). "'Samoa needs new ideas'". Samoa Observer. Retrieved 27 December 2020.
4. Nefertiti Matatia (8 November 2017). "Manu Sina joins their brothers at Oceania Sevens". Samoa Observer. Retrieved 27 December 2020.
5. "Former Samoa MP Director of Pacific Games Committee". Fiji Times. 14 May 2018. Retrieved 27 December 2020.
6. Joyetter Feagaimaali’i-Luamanu (20 November 2018). "Games Director quits". Samoa Observer. Retrieved 27 December 2020.
7. "Director of Pacific Games Organizing Committee resigns". Talanei. 23 November 2018. Retrieved 27 December 2020.
8. "7 new Samoa Lands and Titles court judges to be sworn in". RNZ. 23 December 2019. Retrieved 27 December 2020.

Sporting positions
Preceded by Michael Jones	Samoa National Rugby Union Coach 2008-2009	Succeeded by Titimaea Tafua

External links

• Niko Palamo international stats