There are heavy security present at the Fountain of Life Church, Ilupeju, Lagos as the funeral rites of Late Pastor Taiwo Odukoya commenced with a service of songs and night of tributes.
Odukoya passed away on Tuesday, August 7, 2023, in the United States of America, at the age of 67.
He was survived by five children and six grandchildren.
At the service of songs, ocean of tributes, tears flowed freely from clerics, colleagues, and mentees who praised the clergyman for the roles he performed in various lives.
Odukoya will be laid to rest tomorrow, September 9.
On Sunday, a thanksgiving service will be held at the church to signal the end of the funeral.
Dignitaries including Dolapo, the wife of the immediate past Vice President, Prof Yemi Osinbajo; Pastor Paul Adefarasin, Bishop Stephen Adegbite, Rev. Sam Adeyemi, Peterson Okopi, others were in attendance at the service of songs.
The preacher’s death comes less than two years after his 47-year-old South African wife, Nomthi Odukoya, died in November 2021 after a two-year battle with cancer.
They were married for 11 years and had two children.
He married Nomthi after his first wife Bimbo died in the ill-fated Sosoliso plane crash in 2005.
His union with Bimbo produced three children, including Jimmy — the star of Netflix’s ‘Woman King’ movie.
In December 2021, the pastor also lost his twin sister, Kehinde Hassan, from cancer complications.
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