NIGERIAN AMBASSADOR TO US ADE ADEFUYE IS DEAD

Prof. Adebowale Ibidapo Adefuye, a historian who served as Nigeria’s ambassador to the United States, has died in Washington, DC.

Adefuye was in 2010 appointed by former President Goodluck Jonathan as Nigeria’s ambassador in the US. He was recalled to Nigeria after President Muhammadu Buhari was sworn in as President. He was still waiting to hand over to a new ambassador when he suddenly died.


Mr. Adefuye who hailed from Ijebu-Igbo was born in 1947.