Nigerian Ambassador To US Is Dead

Nigerian Ambassador to the United States, Sylvanus Adiewere Nsofor, is dead.

He died Thursday night at 85.

Though no official statement has been issued, reliable sources confirmed his death.

A retired justice of Nigeria’s Court of Appeal, Nsofor assumed office as Nigeria’s ambassador to the United States on November 13, 2017.

The envoy succeeded Prof. Adebowale Adefuye, who died towards the end of his tenure as Nigeria’s ambassador to US.

Born on March 17, 1935, in Oguta, Imo State. Nsofor graduated from London’s now-defunct Holborn College of Law in 1962.

And in 1964, got an LL.M from the London School of Economics.