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Former Military First Lady Is Dead

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A former military First Lady of Nigeria and wife of Head of State, Major-General Johnson Thomas Aguiyi-Ironsi is dead. Mrs Victoria Aguiyi-Ironsi, who served as First Lady between January and July 1966, died at the age of 97.

She died on Monday at the Federal Medical Centre, Umuahia in Abia State.

Her husband, Aguiyi-Ironsi, was killed in Ibadan, Oyo State, on July 29, 1966, in one of Nigeria’s bloodiest coups.

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She was said to have never remarried and had eight children who were taken and cared for by nuns in Ibadan during the Nigerian civil war.

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