Popular Nigerian pastor Taiwo Odukoya dies at 67

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Late Pastor Odukoya


He lost his first wife Pastor Bimbo Odukoya in a plane crash and lost the second one to cancer. His world had shattered with tragedy after tragedy. He was inconsolably devastated. He couldn’t hold it anymore.


Pastor Odukoya was the General Overseer of the Fountain of Life Church in Lagos with membership strength of over 8,000 worshippers.


Born in 1956, Odukoya married his first wife Bimbo, a charismatic televangelist in 1984 but her life was cut short when she died in a plane crash in 2005 at the age of 45.


Late Bimbo Odukoya


Pastor Taiwo later married his second wife Rosemary Simangele Odukoya in 2010 but the marriage was also cut short when the 47 year old Rosemary died of cancer in November 9, 2021.

Late Simangele Odukoya


Few weeks after the death of his second wife, Pastor Taiwo Odukoya’s twin sister Kehinde also died and it became unbearable for him to hold himself together.


Pastor Odukoya died in the US on August 7, 2023 from a yet-to-be disclosed cause.





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