Mama Juliana 120 Years
Mrs. Juliana Abebi Shodiya
Nigerians don't know how to keep accurate records and this explains why we hardly get international sometimes national recognition. Recently, a Chinese man of 116 years passed on and the world recorded him as the oldest man. But there is someone in Nigeria older than him.
Mrs. Juliana Abebi Shodiya, nee Oketoogun, helped win converts for a church when it was built in 1901:
Funmi Salome Johnson of National Mirror was with this ancient woman recently.
She doesn’t speak the English language but she speaks fluent Yoruba. She is not lettered but no one can take away her noticeable intelligence and lucidity.
