Forty years after his murder, Aguiyi-Ironsi's son, Thomas Aguiyi-Ironsi, was to become Nigeria's Minister of Defence and took over that position from General Theophilus Danjuma, the man that had killed his father 40 years earlier.. 
O gba oye akoko ninu imo sociology lati Ile-ẹkọ giga Yunifasiti ti Bowen ati oye eleekeji ninu isakoso eniyan ( Human Resources Management) lati Ile-ẹkọ giga Yunifasiti ti Chester ni UK.Efe Irele dawole ise awoṣe fun awon osere, o si tayo ninu aworan fidio ti Like to Party èyítí Burna Boy se ni odun 2012.. 