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BREAKING! Former Nigerian First Lady Victoria Aguiyi-Ironsi Is Dead

Thompson Nsisongabasi

Aug 23, 2021

A former Nigerian First Lady, Victoria Aguiyi-Ironsi, has been pronounced dead, All Facts News has learned.

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It was gathered that the wife of the late Nigerian Head of State, Major General Johnson Thomas Aguiyi-Ironsi, died on Monday morning at the age of 97.

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She was born on the 21st of November 1923 and got married at the age of 16 to the late Nigerian leader as a student of Holy Rosary Convent School, Okigwe in 1953.

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The late first lady was also a former Commissioner of the Local Government Services Commission in Abia State.

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Recall that Major General Aguiyi -Ironsi, who was the Supreme Commander of the National Military Government for six months, was overthrown and killed on July 29, 1966, after a counter-coup in Ibadan.

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