The wife of Major-General Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi, Nigeria’s first military head of state, Chief Mrs. Victoria Aguiyi-Ironsi, is dead.
Mrs. Aguiyi-Ironsi died in the early hours of Monday, at the aged 97.
Born on November 21, 1923, she was the second First Lady of Nigeria from January 16, 1966, to July 29, 1996, when her husband was assassinated in a counter military coup.