Nigeria’s Ambassador to Morocco, Alhaji Mansur Nuhu Bamalli, is dead. He was 42 years old.
A statement by the Media and Publicity officer of the Zazzau Emirate Council said the envoy died at a private hospital in Lagos while on transit to Morocco.
The statement added that “funeral prayers will be announced later”.
He is survived by a wife and two children. The then President Muhammadu Buhari appointed Bamalli as ambassador a year ago.
In a letter dated 7th October 2022, the then Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Geoffrey Onyeama said the appointment was in recognition of the decades of Bamalli’s meritorious service to the country in the foreign service.
Before his appointment, he was a Deputy Director at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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.
Source: Daily Trust
