The Senior Pastor of Fountain of Life Church Pastor Taiwo Odukoya is dead.
His shock demise has been confirmed by the church through its official Facebook page.
He was said to have died on Monday August 7 in the United States of America.
The post read, “The fountain of Life Church Family, in total submission to the will of God Almighty announces the passing unto greater glory of our Father, Teacher, a great servant of the Most High God, Pastor Daniel Taiwo Odukoya, Founding Pastor of The Fountain of Life Church, who passed unto glory on the 7th of August 2023 in the USA.
“We are in total submission to you LORD!!!
“We thank the Lord for the gift of greater leader!!!”
Below are 10 facts about the departed cleric.
i. He was born on June 15, 1956
Kaduna, Northern Region, British Nigeria (now in Kaduna State, Nigeria).
ii. He had his primary and secondary education at Baptist Primary School, Kigo Road, Kaduna and St. Paul’s College (now known as Kufena College, Wusasa) Zaria respectively.
iii. He attended the University of Ibadan in 1976 where he obtained a degree in petroleum engineering in 1981.
iv. As a petroleum engineer, he started work at the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation in April 1982 after the compulsory one-year National Youth Service Corp scheme, and served there until his voluntary retirement in January 1994 after his call to the ministry.
v. He co-founded The Fountain of Life Church in 1992
vi. He married his first wife Bimbo Williams in 1984. The marriage produced three children. Bimbo Odukoya, along with 102 other people, died in the crashed Sosoliso Airlines Flight 1145.
vii. He got married again to Rosemary Simangele Zulu from South Africa in 2010. The marriage produced two boys.
viii. In November 2021, Odukoya lost his second wife to cancer. The pastor announced the death of his wife on 9 November, saying that the South African “battled cancer for the better part of two years.
xi.He has lost his twin sister, Kehinde on Thursday, 30th December, 2021.
x. The Church has several missions in South Africa, the United Kingdom, United States of America, Switzerland, Kenya, Equatorial Guinea, Republic of Benin, Côte d’Ivoire, Republic of Benin and Togo. Until his death, he was the senior pastor of The Fountain of Life Church, Ilupeju, Lagos, with a membership strength of over 8,000 people.
