Nigeria’s ambassador to Morocco, Alhaji Mansur Nuhu Bamalli, is dead.

 

 

Bamalli, 42, was also the Magajin Garin Zazzau and biological younger brother to the Emir of Zazzau in Kaduna.

 

A statement by the Media and Publicity officer of the Zazzau emirate council said Mansur Nuhu Bamalli died in the early hours of Friday, October 20, 2023, at a private Hospital in Lagos while on transit to Morocco.

 

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

 

He is survived by a wife and 2 children.

 

Bamalli was appointed by former President, Muhammadu Buhari last year.

 

Before his appointment, he was a deputy director at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.