{"id":10043,"date":"2016-12-19T15:03:40","date_gmt":"2016-12-19T14:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/?p=10043"},"modified":"2016-12-19T15:08:58","modified_gmt":"2016-12-19T14:08:58","slug":"nigerian-ayorinde-african-scrabble-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/nigerian-ayorinde-african-scrabble-king\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian, Ayorinde African scrabble king"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ayorinde Adebanjo: new African scrabble champion<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Saidu Ayorinde Adebanjo of Nigeria on Sunday emerged the 13th African Scrabble Champion winning 23 games of 32 in Tema, Ghana.<\/p>\n

Ayorinde, \u00a0dethroned his Nigeria counterpart, Nsikakabasi Etim, the immediate past Africa Scrabble Champion, when he finished first in a 32-game marathon to become the best in the duel.<\/p>\n

Ayorinde was ranked sixteenth at the 2015 World Scrabble championship.<\/p>\n

Some Nigerians, namely: Eta Karo, Umebiye Cyril, Nsikakabasi Etim and Rex Ogbakpa emerged in the second, third, fourth and fifth positions respectively.<\/p>\n

A Kenyan, Gitonga Nberitou, broke Nigerian line up to take the sixth position.<\/p>\n

Other Nigerians in the listing are: Ogbogu Azubuike, seventh; Dennis Ikekeregor, eight;\u00a0 and Anthony Ikolothe, the National Scrabble Coach of the Senior Team, ninth,\u00a0John Curtis Ebomah came tenth.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>

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Ikolo told our correspondent that the victory was due to hard work and dedication.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is a testimony to the potential of Nigeria as a country and the sacrifice and hard work of the players,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Ayorinde who lives in Ikorodu, in Lagos\u00a0state, \u00a0is an hydrologist cum geo-informatics system analyst.<\/p>\n

He attended Model College, Igbokuta and University of Agriculture in Abeokuta. He later\u00a0obtained a masters degree in geo- informatic system from University of Lagos.<\/p>\n

Source: NAN<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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