Former Nigerian First Lady Is Dead
GoldenNewsNg report that A former Nigerian First Lady, Victoria Aguiyi-Ironsi, has been pronounced dead.
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.
She was born on 21 November 1923 and got married to the late Nigerian leader as a student of Holy Rosary Convent School, Okigwe in 1953 aged 16.
The late first lady was also a former Commissioner of the Local Government Services Commission in Abia State.
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.