The General Overseer of the Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries and Chancellor of Mountain Top University, Daniel Kolawole Olukoya, has been appointed as a Professor of Biotechnology.
According to a statement by the church, Olukoya got the new title after the assessment of his publications by some of the world’s best scholars in Biotechnology, and each of these scholars found the preacher worthy of being appointed as a Professor of Biotechnology.
The statement read in part, “It needs to be underscored that this appointment is indeed well-deserved by Prof. D. K. Olukoya, who is an epitome of all-round excellence.
“It needs to be mentioned that Prof. D. K. Olukoya was offered this position in the 1990s by many Universities. But, he chose to pursue his ministerial destiny, as directed by God.
“The authorities, members and friends of the Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries, across the world, heartily congratulate our leader and mentor, Prof. Daniel Kolawole Olukoya, on his very eminently deserved appointment as Professor of Biotechnology.”
Olukoya’s profile
In 1980, Olukoya bagged a first-class honours degree in Microbiology from the University of Lagos. He obtained his doctoral degree (PhD) at a record time in Molecular Genetics, from the prestigious University of Reading in the United Kingdom, in 1984.
Then, he taught Genetics at the University of Lagos and was an external examiner to a number of Universities in and outside Nigeria.
He also engaged himself 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. He has also been cited more than a thousand times by scholars 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.
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