Nigerian Ambassador to the United States, Sylvanus Adiewere Nsofor, is dead.
He died at Maryland hospital, Washington DC on Thursday night.
Nsofor, a retired justice of Nigeria’s Court of Appeal, was aged 85.
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He assumed office as Nigeria’s ambassador to the United States on November 13, 2017, succeeding 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.
He also bagged an LL.M from the London School of Economics in 1964.
