The demise of a former chairman of Shooting Stars Sporting Club of Ibadan and arguably the oldest football fan in Nigeria, Pa Olayiwola Lakondoro has been announced on Thursday. He was said to have lived 111yrs.
Pa Lakondoro was a foundation member of WNDC-Shooting Stars in 1963 and was the chairman of the club in 2014. Before his death, he was the only surviving member of Nigeria Footballers, named UK Tourists who traveled to Britain and played with bare legs.
Born on January 7,1912 to traditional worshiper parents, Pa Babalola Lakondoro and Madam Ifaranti Lakondoro of Ile Otun, Oje in Ibadan North East Local Government with their village at Saago Idiiya, Ido Local Government.
Pa Lakondoro schooled at Oke Are Theological Seminary, Ibadan and St Finnbar, Lagos and taught briefly as a teacher before he joined the colonial army in 1939 for the 2nd World War which took him to Scotland, India, and others.
Credit: braceradio.com
