The remains of late Justice Sylvanus Nsofor, Nigeria’s immediate past ambassador to the US, has departed the country of his duty post for the final journey back home.
NAN reports that his body departed the Dulles International Airport, Washington, on Wednesday morning aboard a Delta Airlines plane in a coffin swaddled in Nigeria flag
Ekohotblog gathered that officials of the US Department of State, and Mrs Jane Adams-Abanulo, Nigerian embassy officials led by the Charge D’affaires paid last respect and bade him farewell at the airport.
A short departure ceremony for the deceased included a guard of honour mounted by US military service members at the cargo section of the airport.
Nsofor’s wife, Jean, and son, Cross, are accompanying the body, expected to arrive at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos State.
Representatives of the US consulate in Lagos and officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs will receive the body on arrival in Nigeria.
Nsofor, an 85-year-old retired justice of Nigeria’s Court of Appeal, died at a US hospital on December 10 after a brief illness.
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He was born on March 17, 1935, in Oguta, Imo State, Nigeria.
Nsofor, who graduated from the defunct Holborn College of Law, London, in 1962, assumed office as Nigeria’s ambassador to the US on November 13, 2017
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