The Pollock Twins Story
On May 5, 1957, Joanna Pollock, 11, and her sister Jacqueline, 6, were killed in a car accident. This left their parent's John and Florence devastated. But on October 4, 1958, Florence gave birth to twin girls, Gillian and Jennifer. Gillian and Jennifer were identical twins, but they had different birthmarks. Jennifer had a birthmark on her waist that matched a birthmark that Jacqueline had. She also had a birthmark on her forehead that resembled a scar that Jacqueline had. The family moved to Whitley Bay when the twins were three months old. Two years later, the girls started asking for toys that had belonged to their elder sisters, despite never having seen the toys before. After the family returned to Hexham, the twins, despite never having been there, pointed out landmarks their older sisters had known. They also began to panic upon seeing moving cars, shrieking, “The car is coming to get us!” After they turned five, their memories of their previous lives faded, and they went on to lead normal lives.
Aguiyi-Ironsi attended school in Umuahia, Calabar, and Kano. In addition to English and Igbo, he 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.
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