Sylvanus Nsofor, the Nigerian Ambassador to US is dead

Sylvanus Adiewere Nsofor, the Nigerian ambassador to the United States of America, is dead, ThisDay reports.
Nsofor died on Thursday at the age of 85 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.