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Jighere Wellington a Cowboy-hat wearing Nigerian crushed his English opponent 4 - 0 at the World Scrabble Championship in Australia to become the first African to bag the word game’s global title.

Jighere was among more than 120 competitors who travelled to Perth for the World English-language Scrabble Players’ Association Championship, which culminated in Sunday’s best-of-seven final against England’s Lewis Mackay.

“He had to battle for four days to emerge on top but once he got there — maybe he was a little fresher, or got a bit of luck — everything fell into place for him and he won four-nil,” Adam Kretschmer, one of the organisers of the event, told AFP of Jighere’s effort.

The Nigerian used such high-scoring words as “fahlores”, “avouched” and “mentored” as he puzzled his way to victory.

“It is the first time that an African has won in these world championships,” Jighere told The Guardian after the win.

Words like dacoit, aah and yow helped Nigerian Wellington Jighere become Africa's first English-language Scrabble world champion.

He said he felt as though he had the "whole continent" behind him when he was playing.

In his congratulatory message ,President Muhammadu Buhari said he had "done the country proud".


(In case you were wondering dacoit is "a member of a class of robbers in India", aah is "an expression of surprise" and yow is slang in Australia "to keep a look-out" - all according to oed.com.)

But he conceded that: “Nigel is still the master. It just happens that today was my day.”


Culled BBC Sport and The Guardian

The African continent was divided into 4 different zones each consisting 4 countries and named West,East,South and North Africa zones,with the percentage support for the 3 aforementioned clubs stated based on survey sample.

Also, Nigeria has the highest number of professional footballers to have graced the EPL from the continent(32players).

What is your take on this? Thought Chelsea has more supporters in Nigeria!

source:BBC AFRICA SPORT

The cat is on flat horizontal ground ,the stair is only a design on the floor.

Place your phone at 180 degrees on your palm and you will see that neither of the cat's head nor tail is slanting, which proves that it is neither going up nor down

Lets share some embarrassing moments we have personally experienced or that which we can imagine possible:

•When your call your wife Linda instead of Tina. Hoops Linda happens to be your hot female secretary’s name.

• When your crush cooks a very salty food, you can’t eat it, your cant spit it neither can you tell her. Well Just swallow/munch it with water.

• When you are alone in your office (newly employed) and you fart only for your colleagues to enter a minute later.

• When Messi misses a penalty kick and Ronaldo scores on a counter attack from the missed penalty

• When you are doing a presentation with your zipper wide open, only to know after the presentation!

• When the wind is fiercely blowing up your shirt up at a fully packed national stadium.

• When you leave home feeling cool in your afro hair cut , only for you to sight yourself from a show glass that you forgot to comb the
LONGGGGG hair many hours later.

• When your Sunday school teacher ask you joking during a class the name of the man that killed Goliath and you shout Samson cos you
were busy chatting on your phone and didn’t hear the question.

• When you arrive at work with your trouser tucked into your socks.

• When you wake hope without praying(even when you have the time and it crossed your mind) , only for you to get to work late on the
same day and you see your boss car parked outside, how do you open the same mouth to start praying?

• When you try to enter an office with greeting the people seated by the entrance only to discover the door is locked , how do you ask
them about the occupant's whereabout

• When you PUT on your tv for live friendly match and you see Spain 1-Burundi 5 five minutes to go!

• When you are in an interview for a new job (hr / compliance officer)and your present boss calls you and the interviewers grant you
permission to pick up and the conversation below takes place;
Boss: where are you? , we are all waiting for you.
You: (reluctantly)Am in the bank submitting the documents you gave me to the branch manager,can I call you back sir.
Boss : No let me talk to the branch manger , I need to discuss something urgently with him.
Youyou cover the mouth piece and ask the interviewers can anybody volunteer to be the branch manager )
Interviewers: (chorus ) No!!!!!!
You: (you changed your voice ) This is the branch manager on the line how can i help you sir?
WILL YOUR STILL BE OFFERED THE NEW JOB?

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