The wife of Nigeria’s first military Head of State, Major-Gen. Aguiyi-Ironsi, Chief (Mrs.) Victoria Nwanyiocha Aguiyi-Ironsi, is dead. She died in the early hours of Monday, aged 97. Born on November 21, 1923, she was the second First Lady of Nigeria from January 16, 1966, to July 29, 1996, when her husband was assassinated in a counter military coup carried out by Nigerian military officers of Northern extraction. Aguiyi-Ironsi was killed in Ibadan in the countercoup led by Murtala Muhammed and which led to the installation of Yakubu Gowon as…
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