Ex-first lady Victoria Aguiyi-Ironsi is dead
The widow of the late first Nigerian head of state Victoria Aguiyi-Ironsi is dead.
The former first lady died at 5.00 am on Monday at the age of 97. She would have been 98 on November 21.
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Her husband, Major General Johnson Umunnakwe Aguiyi-Ironsi, was the first Nigerian military head of state; and he was in office from January 17, 1966 till July 29, 1966. He was assassinated in Ibadan in a counter-coup led by late Gen. Murtala Mohammed.
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Victoria married Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi as a student of Holy Rosary Convent School, Okigwe, in 1953.