4th April, 1968: Civil rights leader and Baptist minister Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated a day after his speech ‘I have been to the Mountain Top’ in Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
4th April, 2019: The University of Lagos confers an honorary Doctorate Degree on Dr Daniel Kolawole Olukoya, the General Overseer of Mountain of Fire and Miracle Ministries at the 50th Convocation Ceremony of the institution. He was the first person ever to graduate with a first-class degree in Microbiology from the University of Lagos, Nigeria.
4th April 1933: Pastor Gabriel Olutola is born. He was the 2nd National President of The Apostolic Church Nigeria and was born in Ilesa, Osun State.
4th April, 1855: Rev. Thomas Bowen leaves Ijaye-Orile to visit Ogbomoso and Ilorin in the south western part of the Royal Niger Territories and later ‘Nigeria’. He was an American expatriate Baptist missionary who spent considerable time of his missionary activities in Ijaye, Ogbomosho and a few other towns within the present Oyo State. He pioneered the establishment of Baptist Mission in Nigeria. In 1854, his family founded a school in Ijaiye-Orile, which grew into thousands of Baptist primary and secondary schools across Nigeria . In 1956, a proposal to establish a Baptist University in Nigeria was presented to the meeting of the Baptist Mission and the idea was endorsed which eventually led to the establishment of Bowen University, the first Baptist University in Africa. It was approved and licensed to operate by the Federal Government of Nigeria and the National Universities Commission (NUC) as of 17th July, 2001.
4th April, 1742: Charles Wesley preaches his famous sermon, “Awake, thou that sleepest,” to the University of Oxford. The sermon soon became Methodism’s most popular tract.
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