After three days of several applications of herbal remedy thus Dr Lateef Kolaq was revived. Dr Kolaq's life has always been entwined with lots of puzzles, as a four years old kid while playing with his peers, he hand picked a snake on the field and brought it home to his father, on another time he went playing with his mates and brought home a life chameleon, so also he did treated a wounded friend of his, with a leaf he plucked from a nearby plant mashing it up with a stone and pasting it on the cut thereby stopping the bleeding, on reaching home they told the elders and they said he had applied the right remedy to the wound.
His academic life started at Baptist primary school later known as L.E.A primary school, Faaki road Kaduna in the year 1966 to 1972.

Towards the end of his primary school education, while he was coming home from school one day, he saw an Hausa medicine man (Boka) playing with various wild animals such as hyenas, snakes, and cooking on people heads without fire, these really fascinated him and he bravely moved closer to the man, on which the medicine man asked him to come out of the crowd that gathered watching the show. The medicine man placed a snake on his neck, gave him a scorpion to hold and asked him to sit on the hyena .As a kid he was enthused by this, followed the herbal healer with the aim to go and learned their trade. His parent after awaiting his return from school were so apprehensive, went on to announced that their son was lost, he was found after nine months and he was asked by his father about his where about, he then told him about all that transcended between him and the trado-medic, he let them know about his interest in herbal therapy and the act of healing people, all this occurred when he was eight years old. On completing his primary school his father took him back to Kwara state where he was enrolled in an Islamic school Orioh and also went through training in herbal remedy from his grandfather, he was there from 1972 to 1974.

He was there until one day when his senior brother came from Lagos and on his way back took him to the big city.He came to Lagos and was enrolled at M.T.C School 2 at Temple Bariga.On completing his O/level in 1979 he proceeded to another Arabic school in Ikotun Kwara state to further his Arabic studies and learn it’s application on the healing of mankind, this was from 1980 to 1983.It was after this that he came to Lagos to established himself as a full fledged traditional healer. Over the years he has cut a niche for himself in the field of unorthodox medicine and has traveled to China, India, Saudi Arabia, Belgium and other European countries on fact-findings, researches and seminars. Dr Kolaq has been awarded several laurels both at home and overseas. He is happily married with children; he looks up to the future with aims of breaking new grounds in the fields of alternative therapy and maintaining the present leading edge.