Veronica Ogechi Nnaji (born 10 January 1940) is a Nigerian nurse and politician.
In 1979 she was one of the first group of three women to take their seats in the House of Representatives.
[1] She was educated at Holy Rosary School between 1948 and 1955,[2] after which she trained as a nurse at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Ihiala from 1956 to 1960.
[1] She then attended the School of Hygiene in Aba and the Health Centre in Nsukka, qualifying as a nurse in 1963.
Alongside Abiola Babatope and Justina Eze, she was one of the first three women elected to Parliament to take their seats (Esther Soyannwo had been elected in 1964 but did not take her seat).