It was celebration galore recently, as Rev. (Mrs) Victoria Bolarinde Ojo, joined the league of septuagenarians.
Enterprising, creative, inspiring, loving, kind, virtuous and dependable, Mama Ojo as she’s fondly called is an embodiment of great patience and a giver, whose passion for the work of God is limitless. 

 
In his congratulatory message, her husband, Rev. Solomon Ojo described the celebrant as a “morally perfect, invaluable, trustworthy, inherently good and true, proficient, laborious, dutiful, judicious, tirelessly efficient, cautiously skillful, charitable and an ideal wife and mother. 
 
It was encomium galore as children, in-laws, grandchildren, friends and church members reminiscence the good deeds of the celebrant, who many described as a woman with infinite amount of love, endless affection and a prayer warrior.
 
Born on December 30, 1952 in Akure, Ondo State, she’s the second female child of the family, with a younger sister, a younger brother and several stepbrothers and sisters. 

She attended St. James CAC Primary School, Iro, Akure, Ondo State, and after graduation joined her father on his farm for four years.

Ojo later spent another year with her half-brother, who was an Agric officer at Fasola Oyo, after which, she travelled to Lagos to enroll as a fashion designer at the tailoring section of Elizade Nigeria Limited.

Upon graduation, she worked briefly with the company for two years till 1974 and proceeded to set up her fashion designing enterprise named SOLVIC Institute – coined from the three letters of her and husband’s names.

As a fashion designer, she was a highly industrious, creative and hardworking woman and mother. She supplied the likes of UTC and the then Tolakin with baby wears, baby accessories and children’s wears for several years.

Though she didn’t study beyond primary six, she’s very intelligent to the extent that professional and well-educated women who worked with her in the ministry always looked unto her for wisdom and guidance in all areas of life.

She is a woman of great patience and a giver, who served God, her husband and his ministry, her children, grandchildren and everyone who needed her help at any point in time.

Mama Ojo met her husband Rev. Solomon Ojo, during her training at Elizade Nigeria Limited. He was at the period the Accounting and Sales Supervisor of the company. They courted briefly and got married on January 4, 1975, a union blessed with wonderful children.

One of the areas where Ojo has made herself more relevant is the kingdom work. Her family was one of the teams sent to start the Foursquare Gospel Church, Omole, Lagos. After three years of service under the Rev. Felix Meduoye, her family was chosen to lead the pioneering team to plant the Foursquare Gospel Church, Alagbole in 1994, with a few other families.

She was ordained as Deaconess in 1998 and a Reverend in 2007, under the late Rev. W.A Badejo, the then General Overseer.

Her family was later transferred to the Agidingbi Church, to head the Zonal Headquarters in 2005 as the Zonal Superintendent.

Her dedication to service and cooperation with husband and his ministry didn’t go unnoticed; this led to their appointment as the District Overseer of Ijebu-Ode District, Ogun State in 2010, under the then Acting General Overseer, Rev. G. Eboje.

She worked tirelessly with her husband at the Ijebu-Ode District, until September 2018, when they officially retired from service.