The Senior Pastor of Fountain of Life Church, Ilupeju, Lagos, Pastor Taiwo Odukoya is dead and his death has been confirmed via the official Facebook page of the church.
According to the church, Odukoya died at 67, on Monday, August 7, 2023, in the United States of America.
The post on the church’s Facebook page reads, “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 great leader!!!”
Born on June 15, 1956 in Kaduna, Northern part of Nigeria, Odukoya attended Baptist Primary School, Kigo Road, Kaduna and St. Paul’s College (now known as Kufena College, Wusasa), for his primary and secondary school education. He gained admission to the University of Ibadan in 1976, where he bagged a degree in Petroleum Engineering in 1981. After his mandatory one year National Youth Service Corp (NYSC), he joined the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), in April 1982 as a petroleum engineer. After working with NNPC for about 12 years, he disengaged in 1994 to go into the ministry.
Pastor Taiwo Odukoya married Bimbo Williams in 1984 and the marriage produced three children. Bimbo died along with 102 other people, in the crashed Sosoliso Airlines Flight 1145. Five years after, on January 5, 2010, Taiwo Odukoya married Rosemary Simangele Zulu from South Africa and the marriage was blessed with two boys. Odukoya lost Rosemary Simangele Zulu, his second wife to cancer in November 2021.
