• Hilda Baci takes celebrity title Ghana’s Tachie-Menson has won the third Lekki Scrabble Classics, carting away the N1 million top prize money earmarked for the championship.
In a competition that featured African champion, Enoch Nwali, West African king, Timilehin Doko, PANASA President’s Cup winner, Godwin Victor, and other top-rated scrabble players, Tachie-Menson pulled through the waters to win the Division A top prize.Speaking at the end of the championship, Tachie-Menson said: “My father is married to my Nigerian mother.
Playing in Nigeria is like playing at home. After winning Day One, I was a little bit skeptical because we were supposed to play 12 games, but it was reduced to 11 and I was on fire.
I had to take my cool going into Day Two.”John Ayedun came second to take home N500,000 prize money, while Emmanuel Umujose, Nwali, Godwin, and Hakeem Olaribigbe followed in third, fourth, and fifth positions respectively.Meanwhile, it was a frenetic finish in Division B as Babatunde Adeagbo, who had controlled the standing, fending off rivals for a longer period of the tournament, fell at the last hurdle in Round 18 to Babajide Alagbada, who snatched the title with a higher 1,032 cumulative points.