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By KIKELOMO IWAJOMO





Nigeria's Jighere Wellington on Sunday morning{8th November 2015) emerged the new Scrabble champion of the world after defeating Lewis Mackay 4-0 in a Best of Seven series in Perth Australia. Wellington finished first in a 32-Game Scrabble marathon to qualify for the two-man finals and defeated his English opponent in just 4 games, thus becoming the new World Scrabble Champion.




Shortly after his victory, Jighere took to Facebook saying: "Thanks all, for the prayers and the support. Just like our Oga, Sammy Okosagah, alluded to earlier on, it was a battle between one man and a whole continent. It was like I was borrowing the "pickability" of all the glorious pickers in the house. I'll be releasing a more appropriate statement later. I really must endeavor to rest now. I've not slept well in about a week. The fact that I was able to perform in spite of the sleeplessness still baffles me. It only goes to prove that God was deeply involved in this matter. To him alone be all the glory!"



Jighere Wellington is a graduate of the University of Benin and finished NYSC in August 2015.



http://dawntodusknews.com/nigerias-jighere-wellington-emerges-new-world-scrabble-champion-speaks-on-his-victory/

I knw dis is supposed to make fp but it won't couz of d mod prefers celebrities
SMH...
#TEAMNAIRALANDSCIENCE

Nice 1, more grease 2 ur elbow

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcDlnkfhQt8

here he is in 2009

Jighere Wellington, World Scrabble Champion ke
Isn't scrabble that game you play with english words and spelling?

Abi these people blind, do they know who Obahiagbon is??

Anyway, big congrats to Jighere! . Im excited for you.

MizMyColi:
waow!

This is how God takes people to enviable heights.
He posted pictures from the airplane when he was going for this competition.

We were classmates too.
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Are you see what I'm saw

Babe.I am seeing it o!

And to think he had to defer his final year/project and all the school wahala in order to give his full attention to the scrabble competition in school then. it finally paid off! A graduate of crop science now a world scrabble champion.
Thank God for his life o.

Scrabble

MizMyColi:
Exactly!
This is a win for our Alma Mater too.

Lalasticlala, take this or the other thread to FP, plsssssss

Yes o. A crop science graduate becomes a world scrabble champion. Its truly the Lord's doing.

Mine is surely on the way..

MizMyColi:
That was six years ago during our IT.
#surulere

He's changed a whole lot now.

I know!

Congratulations to him.

Everybody famzing him. If it was a drug related stuff now they would have used his tribe to judge him

congrats brother!

Irrelevant!..

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Jsdsjs

Good

Congrats son

Nice one!

prof1990:
Everybody famzing him. If it was a drug related stuff now they would have used his tribe to judge him

what were u thinking before u made this comment.. hypocrite!

Congrats to the ingenious one.......representing well @ the world stage.

scrabble champion? so there is a world championship for that game?

Scrabble, my favourite board game!

speedyGonzales:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcDlnkfhQt8

here he is in 2009

This is why I always try to give a person a good benefit of the doubt.
It's not by accent or presentation.. Some people are just good.. Watching this video you can see the guy isn't really "on the spot articulate" .. He's not a good orator.
But he probably knows more words than that Hon. Patrick guy and most other people.. He can do a job. It doesn't always show on first impression.
This is why when you are looking for someone to do a job for you, you have to give that person a test which is as close to the practical matter as possible.