Bayelsa Governor Showers N4m Scholarship On African Chess Prodigy, Quickpen

Bayelsa State Governor, Douye Diri, has honoured nine-year-old Miss Deborah Quickpen for her heroic feat at the recent Africa Youth Chess Championship in Accra, Ghana.

Quickpen emerged champion in the U-10 category after winning nine of 10 games. According to the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Daniel Alabrah, aside from appointing the Bayelsa-born chess prodigy as youth ambassador, the governor gifted her N4 million cash and scholarship to university level.

The governor used the opportunity to appreciate her parents for training her well, stating every giant begins from the home.