Just In, Nigerian Ambassador To Morocco Is Dead @42

The ambassador to Morroco,  Alhaji Mansur Nuhu Bamalli, is dead.

Mansur  was also the Magajin Garin Zazzau and biological younger brother to the Emir of Zazzau.
A statement by the Media and Publicity officer of the Zazzau emirate council said Mansur Nuhu Bamalli died at a private Hospital in Lagos while waiting to return to Morocco.

In the statement, the “funeral prayers will be announced later.”

Mansur is survived by a wife and 2 children. He was appointed by Ex-President Muhammadu Buhari last year.

The then Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, in a letter dated October 7, 2022 signed,  had said 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.

It would be recalled that 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 (AIEs) for passages.

AIEs are the details of the entitlement of each envoy in terms of their passages and other travel arrangements to return to Nigeria.