{"id":80812,"date":"2025-12-24T06:46:29","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T06:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=80812"},"modified":"2025-12-24T06:46:29","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T06:46:29","slug":"boluwatife-wins-5th-black-knight-closed-scrabble-title-in-ilorin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/12\/24\/boluwatife-wins-5th-black-knight-closed-scrabble-title-in-ilorin\/","title":{"rendered":"Boluwatife Wins 5th Black Knight Closed Scrabble Title in Ilorin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Samuel Adeola<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nigeria\u2019s youth captain, Sufiyan Boluwatife, claimed his fifth Black Knight Closed Scrabble Championship title in Ilorin, Kwara State.<\/p>\n<p>Boluwatife, a former African Youth and World Youth competitor, finished top with six wins and a cumulative score of +796, edging defending champion Olawale Qudus, who also had six wins but scored +303.<\/p>\n<p>The one-day event featured 22 players, with cash prizes and awards for outstanding performers.<\/p>\n<p>Tournament founder and former national champion Kabiru Olaiya praised participants, highlighting the competition as a platform for discovering young talent at national and international levels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Samuel Adeola Nigeria\u2019s youth captain, Sufiyan Boluwatife, claimed his fifth Black Knight Closed Scrabble Championship title in Ilorin, Kwara State. Boluwatife, a former African Youth and World Youth competitor, finished top with six wins and a cumulative score of +796, edging defending champion Olawale Qudus, who also had six wins but scored +303. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":80813,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80812"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80814,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80812\/revisions\/80814"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}