Pastor Daniel Taiwo Odukoya was a Nigerian pastor of Pentecostalism. He was the senior pastor of The Fountain of Life Church, Ilupeju, Lagos, with a membership strength of over 8,000 people.
The remains of the senior pastor of Fountain of Life Church, Pastor Taiwo Odukoya, have been laid to rest.
He was buried in Lagos state today September 9. A funeral mass was held in his church before his body was later interred at a private ceremony attended by his family members and closest associates.
The clergyman died in the US on August 7, at the age of 67. May his soul rest in peace, Amen.
Taiwo Odukoya was born on 15 June 1956 in the city of Kaduna, Colonial Nigeria, where he was also raised. 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, before proceeding to the University of Ibadan in 1976 where he obtained a degree in petroleum engineering in 1981. As a petroleum engineer, he started work at the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) in April 1982 after the compulsory one-year National Youth Service Corp (NYSC) scheme and served there until his voluntary retirement in January 1994 after his call to the ministry.
In 1980, Odukoya met Bimbo Williams
at the University of Ibadan and the two struck up a relationship that led to
their marriage in 1984. The marriage produced three children. On 10 December
2005, Bimbo Odukoya, along with 102 other people, died on the crashed Sosoliso
Airlines Flight 1145.
Bimbo Odukoya's messages had been well and widely received by many. On 5 January 2010, five years later, Taiwo Odukoya got married again to Rosemary Simangele Zulu from South Africa. The marriage produced two boys.
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."
See more photos from his funeral below…
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