THE LAST HOURS OF NIGERIAN AMBASSADOR TO US, PROF. ADEFUYE

THE LAST HOURS OF NIGERIAN AMBASSADOR TO US, PROF. ADEFUYE
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High profile diplomat and Nigerian Ambassador to the United States of America, Professor Adebowale Ibidapo Adefuye has being reported dead. He died on Thursday after suffering a seizure while being driven by his chauffeur to the hospital in Washington D.C., the U.S. capital. Informant confirmed before he could get to the hospital, he gave up the ghost.

Recall a month ago, Adefuye, among several other Nigerian envoys, had been recalled by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He was expected to handover to the Consular General this month, pending the appointment of a new ambassador. One of his last major assignments was to receive President Muhammadu Buhari and his delegation during the president’s three-day official visit to the U.S. last month. Embassy officials, who confirmed his demise, said a send off reception was planned for him next Wednesday, but this will now be turned to a memorial service.

A former professor of History, Prof. Adefuye has been Nigeria’s ambassador to the U.S since March 2010. Born in Ijebu-Igbo, Ogun State, in 1947, Adefuye received his first degree in History at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria in 1969, and in 1973 earned a Ph.D. in History there, with a dissertation on “The Political History of the Palwo, 1400-1911.” He studied at Columbia University, the University of North Florida and the University of Florida in Gainesville. As U.S. ambassador, Adefuye helped to persuade the U.S. to remove Nigeria from its “country of interest” terrorism watch list. Nigeria was placed on the list following the December 25, 2009 failed attempt by Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab to blow up a Northwest Airlines flight headed from Amsterdam to Detroit