Buhari mourns as Nigerian ambassador to US dies at 85

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Nigeria’s ambassador to the United States, Justice Sylvanus Adiewere Nsofor, is dead.

Nsofor  died   on Thursday night in the United States at  85 years.

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President Muhammadu Buhari appointed Nsofor an ambassador in 2017.

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The President  on Friday commiserated with Nsofor’s family, friends and associates over his demise.

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In a telephone call to Jane Nsofor, the widow of the retired justice in New York on Friday, Buhari described Nsofor as “an outstanding judge of rare courage and truth who is not afraid to give justice to whom justice is due.”

Referring to the 2003 presidential election during which Justice Nsofor delivered a minority judgment as a member of the Election Appeal Panel in favour of Buhari as candidate of the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP), the President said the country will miss people with such exemplary pedigree.

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President Buhari also directed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to work with Justice Nsofor’s family on the burial arrangements.

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

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

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Born on March 17, 1935, in Oguta, Imo State, Nigeria, 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.

The late envoy began teaching at Holborn College of Law in 1964 and later went into private practice the following year.

He was appointed to the bench in Nigeria in 1977, and served as a judge of the Imo state High Court. Nsofor was a justice on the Court of Appeal of Nigeria for 13 years until his mandatory retirement in 2005.

 

 

 

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