Delta State player, Oshevire Avwenagha, has emerged winner of the Masters category of the First Governor Diri National Scrabble Championship in Yenagoa on Sunday evening.
The three-day tournament which featured 300 players in five categories, including Masters, Intermediate, Opens, Veterans and Students, witnessed Avwenagha smiling away with the N500,000 plus trophy star prize at stake.
Raji Kazeem of Oyo State won the Intermediate category while Tariye Alari of the host state Bayelsa was winner in the Opens. Engr. Ojior Osikhena of Edo State won the Veterans category.
The students category was won by 16-year-old Ikoko David of Federal Government College, Odi in Bayelsa State.