The General Overseer of Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries (MFM), Daniel Olukoya, has been named a Professor of Biotechnology after 42 years of bagging First Class in Microbiology from the University of Lagos (UNILAG).
The Mountain Top University (MTU) named the fiery preacher a professor who made a first-class in the course at the University of Lagos and his Grade Point Average (GPA) is still the highest recorded so far (as at February 2010) in that course. He is also the first to clone genes.
The recent appointment was a result of 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.
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This was contained in a statement made available to Quest Times on Thursday.
“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.
“He bagged a first-class honours degree in Microbiology from the University of Lagos in 1980. 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.
“Thereafter, 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.
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“He has also been cited more than a thousand times by scholars across the world.
“Not only has the new Professor of Biotechnology cut a niche for himself among eminent scholars in Microbiology and Biotechnology across the world, he had 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.
“It needs to be mentioned that Prof. D. K. Olukoya was severally 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,” the statement read.