Nigerian Youths’ performance thrills PANASA, Awosika Foundation

President, Pan African Scrabble Association, Adekoyejo Adegbesan; Coordinator, Winifred Awosika Tournament for School, Mrs. Oge Egwu; Founder, Winifred Awosika Foundation (WAF)/Chrisland Schools, Winifred Awosika; former World Scrabble champion, Wellington Jighere; emeritus judge of Lagos State, Justice (Dr.) Adesuyi Olateru-Olagbegi; and 2022 African Scrabble champion, Enoch Nwali, at the presentation of Winifred Awosika Youth Scrabble Championship Trophy to the WAF founder, in Lagos.

Nigerian youths have the potential to excel at whatever they set out to do if given the enabling, the Pan African Scrabble Association (PANASA) and the Wilfred Awosika Foundation have said.

Commending Nigerian players for putting the country on top of international scrabble, PANASA President, Adekoyejo Adegbesan, on Monday, said since 2015 the youths have continued to sustain the country’s status as the world’s best scrabble nation followed by the United States.

Speaking during the African Youth Scrabble Championship Trophy tour in Lagos, which was taken to Winifred Awosika, the sponsor and founder of Winifred Awosika Scrabble Tournament, Adegbesan said the foundation re-channelled the scrabble competition’s focus to involve the country’s youths.

He said the African Youth Scrabble Championship Trophy Tour was brought to Awosika to honour her contributions to the growth and success of Scrabble among youths in the country.

“The Winifred Awosika Foundation is a titled sponsor of the first ever African Youth Scrabble Championship, so it was important that when the trophy comes to Nigeria, it comes home.

The trophy will still continue to be in her name because of what she has done, the biggest strides, youths of junior scrabble on the continent has