The Chancellor of Igbinedion University, Okada, Chief Gabriel Igbinedion, has renamed the Igbinedion University Teaching Hospital after Pastor Chris Oyakhilome, the founder of LoveWorld Ministries.

He stated that the hospital will now be called Pastor Chris Oyakhilome Teaching Hospital.

Igbinedion announced that the institution would be renamed during the ceremony of convocation for the 2021/2022 academic session, held in Okada (near Benin).

Oyakhilome was also awarded an honorary Doctor of Science degree.

The chancellor also donated a parcel of land to LoveWorld Ministries.

In his response, Oyakhilome thanked the chancellor and the university management for the honor and kind gesture.

Earlier, the Vice-Chancellor of the university, Prof. Lawrence Ezemonye, said that the institution was celebrating 23 years of academic excellence and two decades’ track record of timely graduation and unbroken convocation.

Ezemonye noted that the university had so far turned out more than 16, 000 graduates and postgraduate students since inception.