GIANT IN THE TROPIC OF AFRICA: Reverend Dr. Wilson Adebogun Badejo 

• Born on Monday, 19 May, 1947.

• He was an Emeritus General Overseer of the Foursquare Gospel Church, Nigeria.

• He was a veterinary physician and the founder of the Wilson Badejo Foundation. He attended the University of Ibadan, where he studied veterinary medicine. While in the university, he was politically active as the student union president. He also subsequently received a postgraduate degree in management from the University of Connecticut in Storrs, Connecticut, USA, and a Bachelor of Theology from LIFE Bible College in Los Angeles, California, USA.

• Married to Reverend Mrs Adeyinka Badejo, an equally educated and accomplished woman, in September 1974, they had six children together – Opeyemi, Damilola, Olaolu, Adenike, Oluwafemi, Oreoluwa.

• Dr. Badejo served as the third General Overseer of Foursquare Gospel Church in Nigeria for 10 years, 1999 to 2009.

• He was the chairman and founder of The Wilson Badejo Foundation (WBF), a non-profitable, non-governmental and non-religious foundation, which has its building principles on bringing succour to the hopeless and underprivileged of the society. WBF provides medical outreach, community development and youth empowerment.

• He planted about 2,000 churches under the initiative of Barley Harvest Church Planting; he also strengthened and built a good relationship with her international body, Foursquare Mission International (FMI), helping them also to reach out to souls outside the nation.

• The great preacher, Badejo, slept in the Lord on Saturday, August 7, 2021. He was 74.

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