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Adeoye Fawaz, 18-Year-Old Homeless Bus Conductor Becomes Chess Champion In Lagos Slum (Photos)

By Edna Wande
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Adeoye Fawaz, 18-Year-Old Homeless Bus Conductor Becomes Chess Champion In Lagos SlumAdeoye Fawaz, an 18-year-old homeless boy who works as a bus conductor, has emerged as the overall champion in a chest contest organised by Chess in slums Africa.

Chess in slums Africa is a non-profit organisation known for using the game as a framework to promote education and raise champions from low communities.

The group recently organised chess training for “51 homeless children” living under the bridge in Oshodi, a hustling and bustling area of Lagos state.

Some of the kids.

During the training, the team took the children on the rudiments of chess as well as mental maths where they were given several puzzles to solve.

The exercise ended with a contest organised to test the participants’ knowledge of what they were taught during the training session.

In a lengthy Twitter thread, Tunde Onakoya, founder of the organisation, said Fawaz emerged as the overall champion in both chess and mental maths.

Onakoya also narrated how he and his team saw Fawaz about a month ago under the bridge and then enlisted the teenager for the training.

According to him, the bus conductor disclosed that he still nurses the dream of becoming a musician and comedian.

He wrote;

Adeoye Fawaz, an 18 year old boy who works as a bus conductor and has lived years of his life under Oshodi bridge emerged as our overall champion in both chess and mental maths. A star is born.


Onakoya said some of the participants — who are between the ages of 11 and 20 — include orphans and those who ran away from their homes to seek greener pastures in Lagos.

He called on Nigerians to support the children to further explore their potentials and get quality education.

Read Tunde Onakoya’s full thread below;

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