2nd African Youth Scrabble Championship: Nigeria lines up 20 players for ultimate battle in Nairobi, Kenya

Posted : 21 December 2024

Twenty players are expected to represent Nigeria at the second edition of the African Youth Scrabble Championship (AYSC), which will be hosted by Kenya next year.

The head coach of Team Nigeria’s youth Scrabble category, Samuel Eromosele, made the announcement on Friday.

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Eromosele stated that there will be no qualifiers for the AYSC; instead, the team will be selected from the sixty players under his supervision.

“We opened our virtual camp on Wednesday, 2nd October 2024, with ten players in camp. The camp eventually grew to 60 players. The camp will be dispersed on Saturday, 21st December, and will reconvene on Monday, 6th January 2025, and will last for seven months.”

“We are going to Nairobi, the Kenyan capital, to defend all the titles we won on home soil in 2023. At that time, it was just Nigeria and four other countries, but Kenya is likely to be bigger and tougher, so we must be proactive and get our team together,” Coach Samuel Eromosele, who is also the National Youth Scrabble Coordinator, stated.

Meanwhile, Captain of Team Nigeria at the World Youth Scrabble Championship 2024, Sufyan Boluwatife, has been named as captain for Team Nigeria at the African Youth Scrabble Championship.

He will be assisted by Michael Ogbonna and Hauwa Abdullahi.

The Nigeria Scrabble Federation (NSF) has made arrangements for invitation letters from PANASA to be issued to the players on 10th January, along with supporting documents from both the Nigeria Scrabble Federation and the Kenyan Scrabble Federation.

In a related development, sports stakeholders have appealed to the Federal Government through the National Sports Commission (NSC) to financially support the Scrabble Youth Team Nigeria for the African Youth Championship.

It is on record that the former Ministry of Sports has yet to pay attention to the growth of Scrabble at the youth level. The federation failed to cover the team's expenses for the maiden edition of the African Youth Scrabble Championship in Lagos, as well as for the World Youth Scrabble Championship in Sri Lanka, citing a lack of funds.

2nd African Youth Scrabble Championship: Nigeria lines up 20 players for ultimate battle in Nairobi, Kenya

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