Ex-Nigeria’s Ambassador to Morocco dies in Lagos
Ex-Nigeria’s Ambassador to Morocco, Alhaji Mansur Nuhu Bamalli, has passed on.
PERISCOPE NIGERIA reports that the deceased, who was also the Magajin Garin Zazzau, was likewise a biological younger brother to the sitting Emir of Zazzau.
A statement by the Media and Publicity officer of the Zazzau emirate council stated that Mansur Nuhu Bamalli died at a private hospital in Lagos while he was on transit to Morocco.
The statement added that “funeral prayers will be announced later.”
He is survived by a wife and two children.
Ex-President, Muhammadu Buhari,
had appointed the deceased a year ago.
To underscore his appointment during the Buhari regime, in a letter dated October 7 and signed by the then Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, the minister had stated that “the appointment was in recognition of the decades of your meritorious service to our fatherland in the Nigerian Foreign Service.
“You shall be invited in due course for the ceremony of investiture. Please accept my warm felicitations and those of the Honourable Minister of State, the Permanent Secretary, and the entire staff of the Ministry,” the letter read.
Before his appointment, he was a deputy director at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Only recently, the Foreign Affairs Ministry had issued a notice for the recall of Nigeria’s ambassadors, both career and non-career envoys across 300 foreign missions worldwide, but the diplomats are yet to return to the country owing to logistics, including Authority to incur Expenditures for passages.
