Tunde Onakoya Biography, Age, Career, Tribe, Awards, Parents, Net Worth, and More
Tunde Onakoya is a popular Nigerian chess master, coach, and founder of Chess in Slums Africa. He came into the limelight especially on social media when he started to organize several interventions for children across slums in Lagos state like Majidun, Makoko, Oshodi, and other locations.
Biography
Tunde Onakoya is a popular Nigerian chess master and coach, who was born on 6 October 1994 in Ikorodu Lagos State Nigeria.
According to the available information he is 29 years old at the moment of writing this content.
Tunde peak ranking in the world is 2197 as of July 2016.
Career
According to Tunde Onakoya, you started learning how to play chess at a barber’s shop in a slum in Ikorodu, Lagos where he was born and grew up.
His family was not able to pay his school fees in secondary school so his mother started working as a cleaner in the same school in exchange for his school fees.
At the moment, Tunde Onakoya is ranked as the number 13 chess player in Nigeria.
Education
Tunde Onakoya attended Yaba College of Technology where he got his diploma in computer science. In the same institution, he was a gold medalist representing the school in the Nigeria Polytechnic Games and also at the RCCG Chess Championship.
Tunde Onakoya went on to win the National Friends of Chess and the Chevron Chess Open.
He was later featured in CNN African Voices. At the moment, Tunde is among the board members of the New York City-based non-profit The Gift of Chess.
Chess in Slums Africa
In September 2018, Tunde Onakoya started Chess in Slums Africa as a volunteer-driven non-profit organization to empower young ones in impoverished communities through chess.
Chess in Slums Africa had the opportunity to partner with Chess.com in September 2020 which was an educational tool for classrooms, chess clubs, and parents.
As of June 2021, the Chess in Slums Africa organization was able to train over 200 children and get lifelong scholarships for 20 of them.
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In May 2021, Ferdinand, a 10-year-old boy with cerebral palsy won the chess tournament in Makoko. He later competed with Babajide Sanwo-Olu, the governor of Lagos State when he met him.
Parents and Siblings
There’s no information about his parents at the moment. He was born and grew up in Ikorodu Lagos State Nigeria. Probably his parents are natives of Ikorodu, Lagos.
Girlfriend
Tunde Onakoya has kept his private life private from the general public; he does talk about his relationship on social media or any other platforms that are available to the general public.
Net Worth
Currently, there is no information about Tunde Onakoya’s net worth.
Tunde Onakoya is probably worth millions of naira at the moment of writing this article.