SAN FRANCISCO, December 11, (THEWILL) –Â Nigerian Ambassador to the United States, Sylvanus Adiewere Nsofor, is dead. He died Thursday night at 85.
A retired justice of Nigeria’s Court of Appeal, Nsofor assumed office as Nigeria’s ambassador to the United States on November 13, 2017 when he succeeded Prof. Adebowale Adefuye, who also died towards the end of his tenure as Nigeria’s ambassador to US.
A graduate of from London’s now-defunct Holborn College of Law in 1962, Nsofor capped his legal studies with an LL.M from the London School of Economics in 1964.
Nsofor was appointed a judge in 1977 and he spent 28 years on the bench, 13 of which were as a Justice of the Court of Appeal (JCA). He also taught Law at the Holborn College of Law in London‎.
He was born on March 17, 1935, in Oguta, Imo State.
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