Nigeria’s outgoing Ambassador to the United States Of America, Justice Sylvanus Nsofor, is dead.
The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr Garba Shehu confirmed this in a statement on Friday.
The 85-year-old diplomat was said to have died on Thursday night at a hospital in Maryland in the US.
Nsofor, prior to his tenure as the ambassador to the US, served as a justice of the Court of Appeal for 13 years until his mandatory retirement in 2005.
According to Shehu, the President has since called Mrs Jane, the widow of the retired justice in New York on Friday to sympathise with her over the loss of her husband.
President Muhammadu Buhari also commiserated with the family, friends, and associates of the late Nigerian envoy, while describing Ambassador Nsofor as an outstanding judge of rare courage and truth who was not afraid to give justice to whom justice is due.
He also directed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to work with Justice Nsofor’s family on the burial arrangements.
The late Nsofor assumed office as the ambassador to the US on November 13, 2017, succeeding Professor Adebowale Adefuye .
