Tunde Onakoya
Nigeria’s President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has congratulated Tunde Onakoya on setting a new world chess record.
Onakoya, broke the Guinness World Record for the longest chess marathon on Saturday, after playing for over 58 hours and winning every match in tow.
In a statement by the Special Adviser on Media and publicity to the President, Ajuri Ngelale, Tinubu celebrated the Nigerian Chess Champion and founder of Chess in Slums Africa for the rare feat.
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The President stated that Onakoya has shown a streak customary among Nigeria’s youth population, the audacity to make good change happen; to baffle impossibility, and propel innovations and solutions to the nation’s challenges, even from corners of disadvantage.
“Nigeria’s youths have demonstrated in all fields, including Afrobeats, Nollywood, the pulsating skit-making enterprise, education, science, and technology, that great exploits can truly come from small quarters.”
Tinubu commended the inclination of Nigerians – across artificial partitions – for unity, once again exemplified through their undiluted support for this epoch-making endeavour.
The President assured all citizens that his administration remains strongly committed to creating and expanding opportunities for the youth to explore and exercise their abilities and become “the symbols of greatness our nation represents into the future.”
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