Nigeria’s outgoing Ambassador to the United States, Justice Sylvanus Nsofor, is dead.
His death was confirmed in a statement on Friday by the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr Garba Shehu.
The 85-year-old diplomat was said to have died on Thursday night at a hospital in Maryland in the US.
In his reaction, President Muhammadu Buhari commiserated with the family, friends, and associates of the late Nigerian envoy.
According to Shehu, the President also called Mrs Jane, the widow of the retired justice in New York on Friday to sympathise with her over the loss of her husband.