Nigerian Ambassador to US, Sylvanus Nsofor, Dies at 85
Sylvanus Adiewere Nsofor, Nigeria’s Ambassador to the United States, is dead. He died last night at 85.
The retired justice of the Court of Appeal assumed office as ambassador to the United States on November 13, 2017.
He succeeded Prof. Ade Adefuye, who also died towards the end of his tenure as Nigeria’s ambassador to US.
Nsofor was born on March 17, 1935, in Oguta, Imo State. He graduated from the Holborn College of Law in 1962 and bagged an LL.M from the London School of Economics two years later.
He taught at Holborn College of Law in 1964 but left for private practice in 1965. In 1977, Nsofor was appointed to the bench in Nigeria and served as a judge of the Imo state High Court.
One of a three-man panel in 2003 presidential race between Muhammadu Buhari of the All Nigeria Peoples Party, ANPP, and President Olusegun Obasanjo of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Nsofor gave a dissenting ruling in favour of Buhari. He compensated him with the ambassadorial appointment 12 years later at 82.
As a judge of the Appeal Court, he served for 13 years and retired in 2005.
