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Major-General Johnson Thomas Umunakwe Aguiyi-Ironsi was 41 years, 10 months, and 13 days old when he became Nigeria’s First Military Head of State on January 16, 1966, having been born on March 3, 1924, in Umuahia, the capital city of present-day Abia State.
Ironsi attended school in Umuahia, Calabar, and Kano. In addition to English and Igbo, Aguiyi-Ironsi could also speak Hausa and Yoruba. He enlisted into the then colonial army at the age of 18 and rose to the rank of a company sergeant-major by 1946.
In 1964, Ironsi became the commander of the entire United Nations Force in Congo, the first African to do so. In 1965, he became a Major-General and Head of the Nigerian army. The first Nigerian to ever attain the rank and the post.
On January 16, 1966, Major-General Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi became Nigeria’s First Military Head of State after a military coup d’état had toppled the First Republic a day before.
Of all military Heads of State, Ironsi ruled Nigeria the shortest, a mere 194 days before he was overthrown and killed by his subordinates on July 29, 1966. #HistoryVille #AguiyiIronsi
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