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IT was a night of fun fare and tribute as Rev. Wilson Adebogun Badejo steps into the septugenarian stage.
The celebration of the former General Overseer of the FourSquare Gospel Church in Nigeria and founder/Chairman of Wilson Badejo foundation at the banquet Hall of Oriental hotel, Lagos recently. In attendance were his old friends, one from his farming business and former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, Overseer of the Latter Rain Assembly , Pastor Tunde Bakare, and former information minister Profssor Jerry Gana, were among the high profile guests. who spoke about his exceptional qualities.
Bakare described the septugenarian as a mentor and man of many parts and also gave the lecture at the occassion on the theme: The cure for extreme poverty and corruption in Nigeria''.
The lecture and Welcome address by senior Pastor of Foursqure Gospel church, Asokoro, Abuja, Rev. Babajide Olowodola, and remarks by Obasanjo who said he met the celebrant ''in a lowly profession of rearing chickens''
Recalling during his tenure as the General overseer, the Barley harvest project was adopted for the church planting program of the Foursquare gospel church in Nigeria. The project involved megacity church planting and strategic engagement of the unreached: over 1000 churches were planted in four years, by the end of his tenure in 2009, about 2,000 churches were planted.
In acknowledgement and appreciation of the grace and call of God in his life , Dr Badejo and his wife Adeyinka on May 19th, 2007, established the Wilson Badejo foundation (WBF), a non-profit organisation aimed at providing educational opportunities for indigent citizens in the higher institutions of learning, as well as ensure that no Nigerian citizen sleeps hungry without a meal a day, empowering well meaning Nigerians youth for employment via vocational training and skill acquisition.
Over the years, many Nigerians have benefited from the foundations medical outreach, free medical check up, free eyetest
The gala night ended with the official launch of a book: ''My Spiritual Odysseys'' a memoir of Wilson Badejo.
Photocredit:TheGuardian
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