Coach Steve Onishola, the Technical Director of Kwara Falcons Basketball Club of Ilorin, is dead.
Onishola died barely 24 hours after his younger sister, Folake Aremu, a Nollywood actress, popularly known as Orisabunmi, passed on.
The State Chairman of the association, Dr. Joseph Adeyemo, confirmed the death of Onishola in Ilorin on Thursday.
The late basketball coach was said to have passed on at 71 following a brief illness.
The deceased was the Manager of Falcons on different occasions before he was appointed the club’s technical director. He was part of the Falcons’ team that secured promotion for the club to the elite division in 2013.