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Former First Lady Victoria Aguiyi-Ironsi Is Dead, Cause Of Death Revealed

Former First Lady Victoria Aguiyi-Ironsi is dead.

 

Newsonline reports that Victoria Aguiyi-Ironsi, the wife of Major General Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi, the late Nigerian head of state is dead.

 

This online news platform understands that the former first lady died on Monday, August 23, at 97. She would have been 98 on November 21, 2021.

 

Late Victoria’s husband Aguiyi-Ironsi was the supreme commander of the National Military Government for six months before being overthrown and assassinated in the 1966 Nigerian counter-coup.

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