Saidu Ayorinde Wins 13th Africa Scrabble Championship

Hamilton Nwosa
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Saidu Ayorinde, a Nigeria has emerged the 13th Africa Scrabble Champion, winning 23 games of 32 in Tema, Ghana on Sunday.

Ayorinde defeated his Nigeria counterpart, Nsikakabasi Etim, the immediate past Africa Scrabble Champion when he finished first in a 32-game scrabble marathon to become the best in the duel.

According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), Ayorinde was ranked sixteenth at the 2015 World Scrabble championship.

NAN said, some Nigerians, namely: Eta Karo, Umebiye Cyril, Nsikakabasi Etim and Rex Ogbakpa emerged in the second, third, fourth and fifth positions respectively.

A Kenyan, Gitonga Nberitou, broke Nigerian line up to take the sixth position.

Other Nigerians in the listing are: Ogbogu Azubuike, seventh; Dennis Ikekeregor, eight;  and Anthony Ikolothe, the National Scrabble Coach of the Senior Team, ninth.

John Curtis Ebomah came tenth.

NAN reports that Nigeria won nine of the ten positions in the championship and consolidated its position as the best team of the championship since nine of its representatives finished in top positions.

Ikolo told NAN in an interview that the victory was due to hard work and dedication.

“It is a testimony to the potential of Nigeria as a country and the sacrifice and hard work of the players,” he said.

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