Seeing aged people suffer makes me depressed -Felicia Ilaka
Chief(Mrs.)Felicia Aderemi Ilaka is the President/Founder of Old Peoples Welfare Foundation, an organisation that is presently catering for the needs of over 2,000 aged people in Lagos. Mrs.Ilaka who hails from Ijebu Ijesha-Ilesa in Osun State will be clocking 79. In this interview, she laments the spate of suffering amongst elderly people in Nigeria.
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