The Nigerian duo of Peace Samson and FM Bomo Kigigha broke a 12-year-old Nigerian jinx after winning medals at the 13th edition of the African Games.
The last time that Nigeria won a medal in chess at the African Games was at the 2011 African Games in Maputo, Mozambique when Bunmi Olape and Oluwatobiloba Olatunji won gold medals in the men’s team board performance and women’s team board performance.
Peace was the one who broke the jinx first after she emerged as the Blitz women’s individual bronze medal winner.
A performance that also motivated Kigigha as the pair went on and grabbed the bronze medal in the blitz mixed team event.