Yemi Fawole

Fawole John Oyeyemi (born 4 March 1985 in Ile-Ife, Osun State) is a Nigerian chess player. He won the Nigerian chess championship in 2014 and has a FIDE (World Chess Federation) rating of 2207. He has the National Chess titles of National Champion, National Master, National Instructor and National Junior Champion.

In 1998, he learned how to play chess and participated in his first chess tournament in 1999. In 2002, he won the Opens II category of the NBL Chess Championship in Lagos. The following year, he became the National Junior Chess Champion by winning the Agusto & Co under 20 Chess Championship. Following his achievement in 2003, he started playing in the (Masters Category) highest level in Nigerian Chess.

He is an executive director of BruvsChess Academy, a chess organization that teaches chess as a school program to school children.

Fawole lives in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja and has earned a bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the University of Abuja.