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West African Championship: Sports Minister Hosts Nigeria’s Victorious Scrabble Team
Nigeria Now No. 1 Scrabble Playing Nation In The World
Joel Ajayi
The Minister of Youth and Sports Development, Sunday Dare on Monday received Nigeria’s National Scrabble team who emerged champions at the West African Scrabble championship in Ghana.
Apart from producing the Championship’s Most Valuable Player Eta Oghenekaro, Nigeria also emerged the Best Country
In his remarks, the Ministry’s Permanent Secretary, Ismaila Abubakar lauded the team’s tenacity, emphasising that their commitment and determination ensured they surmounted all odds to do the nation proud in Accra, Ghana.
The Minister commended the team, stating the confidence displayed during their training sessions paid off, resulting in their spectacular performance at the Championship. He charged the team to find and groom young scrabble enthusiasts that will in no distant future replicate their feat, but also take it a notch higher and put Nigeria on the continental and world map of scrabble champions.
Nigeria is now rated as the the number one scrabble playing nation of the world, having 8 players in the top 20 in the world.
The Nigerian team won 9 out of 10 available awards at the West African championship.
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CSO Salutes Trump
A Civil Society Organization (CSO) under the aegis of Initiative for Leadership Development and Change (ILDC) has congratulated President Donald Trump as the 47th President of the United States of America.
Chief Ugochukwu Nnam, President of the CSO said this in an interview with the Newsmen in Abuja on Monday.
He expressed optimism over improvement on not just American economy but global economy with the inauguration of Trump.
“This is a man with greater vision of making environment around him great.
“In less than few hours of his inauguration, TikTok is back into existence, this shows how he is going to revive the world economy,” he said.
The ILDC boss who reiterated his confidence in Trump’s Presidency, described him as a man of clues and ideas to drive a stable America and the world at large.
He lauded Trump’s collaboration with global entrepreneurs like Elon Musk in an effort to revitalize America’s economy.
According to him, men and women of ideas flock together, they work together for better society and this is what Trump is doing.
Recall that Donald Trump became the 47th President of the U.S by polling 312 electoral votes Vice President Kamala Harris’ 226 votes in Nov, 2024.
Following the oath of office, Trump will address the nation before he is expected to parade across town to the White House and attend three inaugural balls in the evening
About 200,000 supporters are expected to visit the city to mark the presidential transfer of power.
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