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By Dedeigbo Ayodeji
Former Nigerian First Lady, Victoria Nwanyiocha Aguiyi-Ironsi, is dead.
Sources confirmed that she died at about 5.00pm Monday morning.
She was the widow of Gen. Johnson Umunnakwe Aguiyi-Ironsi who was the first Nigerian military head of state who was killed in Ibadan in] a countercoup led by Murtala Mohammed.
Born on 21st November, 1923 Lady Ironsi was the second First Lady of Nigeria from 16 January 1966 to 29 July 1996.
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She married Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi as a student of Holy Rosary Convent School, Okigwe in 1953 at the aged of 16.
