Prof. Oludele Albert Ajani
Trustee
Registered in Lagos, Nigeria
The foundation
We continue Papa Elkanah Osibanjo's life's work: spreading the good news of Christ, relieving poverty, opening the way to education and a trade, and standing with people others have written off, in the conviction he lived by: that no one is beyond restoration.
In their own words
A letter from the family
Our father trained as a cabinet maker. We think about that more than you would expect. Before he was Reverend Osibanjo, before the thirty-three churches and the five zones and the name that people still lower their voices a little to say, he was a young man in a workshop learning how to take material that was rough and make something useful out of it.
He never really stopped doing that. He just changed what he was working on.
The phrase he used for it was restoring the marred pot. He meant it as a way of handling people. He would say that no one is completely useless without a trace of usefulness in one area or the other. And then, which is the part we want you to understand, he would act on it. He gave responsibility to people others had quietly written off. He found what someone was good at and built them somewhere to stand. A great many people are still standing there.
He went home to glory on 5 December 2018, at eighty-eight. For a while afterwards we did what families do: we told the stories, we kept the photographs, we let the grief find its shape. But the stories kept pointing at something we had not done anything about. He had spent forty years making room for people. He had retired in 1989, voluntarily, while he was still wanted, and lived nearly thirty years more as an ordinary member of churches he had planted. And the need he spent his life answering, in Mushin, in Shomolu, in the streets around the church, has not gone anywhere.
So we registered this foundation in Lagos, in his name.
What we have is his method, which we watched work for four decades, and the intention to apply it carefully and to account for it honestly.
If you knew him, you already know why this matters. If you did not, we hope the rest of this site introduces you to him properly, and that you will consider standing with us.
Olutomi Oyewole Osibanjo
For the Osibanjo family
As filed
Our objectives, in the legal wording
The four aims registered with the Corporate Affairs Commission in our constitution. The plain-language version of what that means in practice is on the What we do page.
- 01To advance Christian religion
- 02For poverty alleviation
- 03For educational and social living condition support for everyone in need
- 04For such charitable purposes as the Trustees shall from time to time decide
The people behind it
Trustees and governing body
The registered trustees of the foundation, as recorded on our Certificate of Incorporation.
Rev. Idowu Adeoye Owoyemi
Trustee
Rev. Owoyemi is the Director of The Return Advocacy International Network, also known as Endtime Advocacy. His passion is understanding what biblical prophecy implies for current affairs in the world.
He brings the board a wealth of knowledge in strategic planning and in developing the foundation's core values. When he is not at his desk studying and writing, he is teaching or passing on what he knows. He is a dedicated member of the team.
Olamide Adetola Ajayi
Trustee
Mrs Oluwakemi Mojisola Wey
Treasurer
Rev. Michael Omoregbe Osayiwu
Chairman
Rev. Mike Osayiwu is the Shomolu District Overseer and Axis Coordinator of the Foursquare Gospel Church in Nigeria. A thoroughbred Foursquarian, he was dramatically healed early in life: a child who could not walk, and was carried everywhere, became an able-bodied adult in Christ. That healing gave him an unquenchable hunger for God and a dogged faith that has propelled him into exemplary kingdom service ever since, holding nothing back.
He holds a BSc and an MEd from the University of Lagos and an MBA from the University of Calabar, and is a member of the Nigerian Institute of Management. A seasoned administrator, he rose to General Manager, Finance and Administration, at Natec Nigeria Limited and Philday Nigeria Limited, and as an educationist he was a Resource Fellow in School Administration to Tunkem International Schools, among others. He took his Bachelor of Theology at LIFE Theological Seminary, Ikorodu, and an Executive Diploma in Church Management from McPherson University, Ogun State.
He is a pastor, an evangelist, a Bible scholar, a teacher and a widely travelled conference speaker. He is married to Rev. Mrs Mosunmola Osayiwu, also a credentialed minister of the Foursquare Gospel Church in Nigeria, and they are blessed with biological and spiritual children and grandchildren.
David S. Johnson
Trustee
Mrs Kofoworola Osibanjo
Secretary
Olutomi Oyewole Osibanjo
Trustee
Olutomi is Papa's son. A fellow of both the Association of Corporate Treasurers and the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants in the United Kingdom, he has over thirty years of cross-functional finance experience in management consulting, treasury, finance and accounting, and systems audit, with FTSE 250 and global companies including Accenture, Imperial Tobacco, Unilever International Audit, Coca-Cola Hellenic Bottling and National Express Group.
For the past fifteen years he and his wife have pastored a thriving church in Bristol, with an emphasis on the Word, worship, community, and preparing people for the coming of Jesus Christ.
Accountability
How we are registered
We are a not-for-profit, non-political corporate body under the Companies and Allied Matters Act. Our income and property go solely to our objectives. No trustee or member may take a dividend, bonus, or profit from the foundation.
Our constitution requires our accounts to be audited each year by independent, licensed auditors appointed at a general meeting, and the audited statements to be filed with the Corporate Affairs Commission.
- Registered name
- Elkanah Osibanjo Foundation for Outreach and Poverty Alleviation, Lagos
- Registration number
- RC 9401107
- Registered address
- 7/9 Adeoya Street, Off Isolo Road, Mushin, Lagos, Lagos State, Nigeria