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JUST IN: Former Nigeria’s First Lady, Victoria Aguiyi-Ironsi Is Dead

Former Nigeria’s First Lady, Victoria Aguiyi-Ironsi, is dead.

Glamtush reports that Nigeria’s First Lady, Victoria Nwanyiocha Aguiyi-Ironsi who was the widow of Gen. Johnson Umunnakwe Aguiyi-Ironsi, the first Nigerian military head of state died at 5.00 am on Monday close family friend disclosed.

She would have clocked 98 on November 21. Victoria never remarried after the death of her husband.

According to reports, the former first lady died exactly one day her after friend, age mate and wife of the former Premier of Eastern Nigeria, Adanma Okpara, died.

Aguiyi-Ironsi was killed in Ibadan in a counter-coup led by Gen. Murtala Mohammed, also deceased.

Born on November 21, 1923, Lady Ironsi was the second First Lady of Nigeria from January 16, 1966, to July 29, 1966.

She married Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi as a student of Holy Rosary Convent School, Okigwe, in 1953 at the age of 16.

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