The Chief Executive Officer of Ijamido Children’s Home, Otta, Ogun State, Mrs. Victoria Abosede Obakoya is dead.
She was 61 years old.
Mrs. Obakoya died at about 4.00 a.m. on Wednesday, after a brief illness.
She was the first product of the home.
The Chief Operating Officer of the Home, Mr. John Willoughby, confirmed her death in a telephone interview with FrontPage.
Details of her burial programme have not been made known.
The home was set up by Mrs. Irene Willoughby (Nee Liverpool) in 1958.
Born in Georgetown – Guyana in the United States of America in 1904, Willoughby was brought to Nigeria by her parents – Pa. J.B. Liverpool and Mrs. Elizabeth Liverpool when she was eight years old.
She went to school in Nigeria and became a trained Nurse/Midwife.
After working in different places within Nigeria, Mrs. Willoughby was brought to Ota where she opened a maternity centre in 1956.
She started running the children’s home in 1958 and got government’s approval in 1979.
