The Nigerian ambassador to the United States of America, Sylvanus Adiewere Nsofor has died at the age of 85.
ThisDay reports that Nsofor died on Thursday in Maryland hospital, Washington DC.
Nsofor, a retired justice of Nigeria’s Court of Appeal, assumed office as Nigeria’s ambassador to the United States on November 13, 2017.
He succeeded Prof. Adebowale Adefuye, who died towards the end of his tenure as Nigeria’s ambassador to the US.
Nsofor graduated from London’s now-defunct Holborn College of Law in 1962.