Dr Ezekiel Olusegun Alawale was born on the 3rd of October 1956, in a little town called Igbaye in Osun state, Nigeria to a family of seven, and he is the only surviving child of his parents. He spent the earlier part of his life on the farm with his father and later attended Odo-Oti Grammar School between 1973-1977 and then the Polytechnic Ibadan between 1977-1979 for his A levels.
Dr Alawale later gained admission to the University of Ibadan in 1979 and graduated in 1984. while on Campus he was the head of the village Evangelism team which was responsible for preaching the gospel to all the villages. After graduation, he did a one year internship/houseman ship with Baptist Medical centre Ogbomosho between 1984-1985. In 1989, he began his post graduate surgical training with the Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital and later crossed to University College Hospital Ibadan in 1991 where he finished his training in 1998.
Dr Alawale Lectured in Surgery at The University of Ibadan and University College Hospital, Ibadan, Nigeria; where he was the chief resident surgery, he was later appointed a consultant in Pediatric Surgery after his Fellowship in 1995. In 1996, he worked briefly in Pediatric Surgery Unit in a hospital in Mannheim, Germany and later returned back to Nigeria in 1997, after God spoke to him that Germany was not the place for him.
In February 1998, he took a study leave from the University of Ibadan to further his studies in pediatric surgery in the United Kingdom.
Dr Alawale holds two fellowships in surgery: The West African College of Surgeons, FWACS, and The Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland, FRCSI. In 1996, he won the international college of surgeons’ award for young surgeons and was invited to attend the German Surgical society conference in Berlin.
Dr Alawale later founded God’s Vineyard Ministries; popularly referred to as GVC with its headquarters in Nottingham, UK in March 2001. As a result of the distance of travelling from Brighton to Nottingham every week , Dr Alawale had to give up his Surgery career and retrain as a General practitioner under the VT Scheme for another three years in Mansfield. He is happily married to Dr Olufunmilayo Alawale, a physiotherapist and also a former Lecturer at The University of Ibadan, Nigeria.
They both founded, and co-pastor God’s Vineyards Ministries and they are blessed with three lovely Children; Tosin, Toyin and Tomi.”
Dr Alawale is also the Chairperson Majority Black Led Churches (MBLC) Nottingham, and currently works as a General Practitioner (GP) Bilborough Medical Centre, Bracebridge Drive Nottingham.
The Center for Medical Informatics and Professional Development (CMIPD) was borne out of the immense desire to give back to humanity, using the medical profession as a medium.