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JUST IN: World Chess Record Breaker Returns To Nigeria, Meets Lagos Governor

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Reigning chess master Tunde Onakoya, who broke the record for the longest chess marathon at Times Square, New York, on Wednesday returned to Nigeria.

He was received by a mammoth crowd at the international wing of Murtala Mohammed Airport, Lagos.

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Heritage Times HT reports that Onakoya later visited Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu.

A Chess-in-slums founder, Onakoya broke the record in chess marathon with a time of 60 hours few days ago.

He is 30 years old.

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