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Breaking: Pastor Taiwo Odukoya is Dead

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Founder of the Fountain of Life Church, Pastor Taiwo Odukoya, is dead.

He was aged 67.

A statement by the church via its Twitter handle reveals that Odukoya died yesterday in the United States of America.

The post 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 greater leader!!!”

Odukoya’s first wife, Bimbo, died in the Sosoliso Airlines plane crash, on December 11, 2005, in Port Harcourt, Rivers State.

She was aged 45.

His second wife, South African-born Rosemary Simangele (Nomthi), whom he married in 2010, died from cancer in 2021, at 47.

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