May 1967 - Day Of Mourning - Ironsi Is Assassinated
May 1967 - Day Of Mourning - Ironsi Is Assassinated -Accompanied by a large crowd, officers carry the body of Lieutenant Colonel Fajuyi to his resting place. It was a solemn occasion, the most solemn that many Nigerians remember. Major-General Aguiyi-ironsi, former head of the federal military government and supreme commander of the armed forces, and Lieutenant-Colonel Adekunle Fajuyi, former military governor of Western Nigeria, were killed in Ibadan on July 29, 1966, by mutinous soldiers of the Nigerian army. (Photograph by Drum Photographer @ BAHA)
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