Victoria Aguiyi-Ironsi, wife of the late Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi, first Nigerian military head of state, has died at the age of 97.
She died at the Federal Medical Centre, Umuahia, Abia state in the early hours of Monday after a prolonged battle with stroke.She was born on November 21, 1923, and was first lady from January 17, 1966 to July 1966. She married Aguiyi-Ironsi as a 16-year-old student of Holy Rosary Convent School, Okigwe in 1953.
Her husband was killed in Ibadan, Oyo state, on July 29, 1966 in a coup, and she never remarried.She had eight children who were taken and cared for by nuns in Ibadan during the Nigerian civil war.
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