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National Sports Commission (NSC) has approved Nigerian Scrabble Federation (NSF\u2019s) events for the 18th<\/sup> National Sports Festival tagged \u201cEko 2012\u201d slated forLagos.<\/p>\n The events that received the much awaited blessing of the NSC are, men single (masters, intermediate and opens), Double (masters, Intermediate and open), and team (masters, intermediate and open).<\/p>\n Also approved are women single (one category), double (one category) and team (one category).<\/p>\n According to NSF general Secretary, James Eakyns, winners of all the approved events would go home with gold medals while the second and third place finishers will have silver and bronze medals respectively.<\/p>\n He further stated that only states that are in good standing with NSF vis \u2013a vis payment of dues will be allowed to participate in the events during the festival or any NSF sanctioned\/approved activities.<\/p>\n It would be recalled that scrabble was left out of the last festival held in Port Harcourt, Rivers state but the Local Organising Committee, LOC, of the \u201cEko 2012\u201d games headed by Deputy Governor Mrs. Adejoke Orelope Adefulire in the spirit of encouraging the growth of the game in the country included scrabble as medal winning sport for 2012 edition of the bi \u2013 annual championship.<\/p>\n Reports reaching \u201cImo Trumpeta<\/em>\u201d however indicates that Imo state Scrabble Association are doing everything possible to ensure that the state is well represented at the events come November.<\/p>\n National Sports Commission (NSC) has approved Nigerian Scrabble Federation (NSF’s) events for the 18th National<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports-news"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","elegant-magazine-featured":"","elegant-magazine-medium":"","elegant-magazine-medium-small":"","elegant-magazine-thumbnail-small":""},"author_info":{"info":["Imo Trumpeta"]},"category_info":"Sports<\/a>","tag_info":"Sports","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1532"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1533,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1532\/revisions\/1533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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