MFM General Overseer, Daniel Olukoya Bags Professorship

The General Overseer of the Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries, Dr Daniel Olukoya, has been conferred a professorship.

Naija News reports that the renowned Christian cleric was conferred with the academic title by Mountain Top University, where he is the Vice-Chancellor.

A statement made available to newsmen yesterday explained that the preacher was due for an appointment as a Professor of Biotechnology.

According to the varsity, Olukoya’s new portfolio resulted from the positive consideration shown by a relevant review by the council and the assessments of his publications by some of the world’s best scholars in biotechnology.

The statement read: “This is the result of the positive consideration given by relevant review committees and the Council of the University following the assessments of his publications by some of the world’s best scholars in Biotechnology, each of whom found him to be eminently appointable as Professor of Biotechnology.

“It needs to be underscored that this appointment is indeed well-deserved by Prof. D. K. Olukoya, who is an epitome of all-around excellence.

“He bagged a first-class honours degree in Microbiology from the University of Lagos in 1980. In 1984, he received his doctorate (PhD) in Molecular Genetics from the prestigious University of Reading in the United Kingdom.

“Thereafter, he taught genetics at the University of Lagos and was an external examiner at a number of universities in and outside Nigeria.”

The varsity hailed Olukoya as a distinguished researcher and exceptional geneticist at the Nigerian Institute of Medical Research between 1984 and 1998, during which he produced more than 70 scientific publications in the best local and international journals in the area of Microbiology and Biotechnology.

It also noted that the cleric had been cited more than a thousand times by scholars worldwide.

“Not only has the new Professor of Biotechnology cut a niche for himself among eminent scholars in Microbiology and Biotechnology across the world, he has equally supervised many postgraduate students and continues to serve as a mentor and motivator to many Nigerian Microbiologists and Biotechnologists, many of whom have risen to professorial cadres in universities in and outside Nigeria,” the statement added.

Naija News learnt from the publication that Olukoya was severally offered the position in the 1990s by many universities, but he shunned the offer to pursue his ministerial calling as directed by God.