[1] He was the co-founder and senior pastor of The Fountain of Life Church, situated in Ilupeju, Lagos, and with a membership of over 8,000 people in the 2010s.

[2] Born 1956 in Kaduna, Nigeria, Odukoya went on to study petroleum engineering at the University of Ibadan.

They had three children; now pastors Tolu Odukoya-Ijogun (b. September 7, 1985) and Jimmy Odukoya (b. April 27, 1987), and Tobi Odukoya-Enuha (b. June 11, 1990).

[3] Five years later, on 5 January 2010, Taiwo Odukoya married Rosemary "Nomthi" Simangele Zulu from South Africa (1974-2021).

[9] Odukoya proclaimed a belief in the role of the church in the community and expressed it through several outreach projects, including a hospital, an orphanage, a school for destitute children, a farm,[10] a water project which provides boreholes at strategic locations for people who have no access to clean and portable water[11] and a skill acquisition and entrepreneurial institute for the less privileged.