Nigerian based in Minnesota, the United States of America (USA) Chief Zacchaeus Ogunfolami is dead.
He was 60.
The deceased, also popularly known as “Zach” by his friends and admirers, attended the famous Abeokuta Grammar School where he graduated in 1973.
After working for a few years in Nigeria as a forestry official with the Ogun State government, Ogunfolami moved to the United States in 1982 for further studies on a scholarship by the government of the state.
A past President of the North America / Canada chapter of the Abeokuta Grammar School Old Boys Association (AGSOBA), the late Chief Ogunfolami was employed by the University of Minnesota, his alma mater, for many years.
He subsequently served with distinction as a staff of the Circulation Department of the Saint Paul Pioneer Press, the major newspaper in the capital city of the US state of Minnesota.
Chief Ogunfolami, who held the traditional chieftaincy title of Losi of Ijemo, Abeokuta, died in the US after a brief illness on March 16.
He is survived by two children, Funke, a US-based medical doctor and Tope.
He has since been buried.