Breaking: Nigerian ambassador to Cote D’IVoire Ibrahim Isah is dead

The Nigerian Ambassador to Cote d’Ivoire, Ibrahim Isah, is dead after a protracted illness.

Guardian reports that Isah passed on Tuesday, January 15, in Abidjan, the country's capital at 59.

Legit.ng gathered that the late Isah, who hailed from Niger state, joined the Nigerian Foreign Service in 1983.

He served at the Nigerian High Commission in Sierra Leone, consulate general in New York, Jeddah and at the embassy in China.

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He was the Chargé d’Affaires of the Nigerian embassy in Ankara, Turkey until his appointment as ambassador extraordinary/plenipotentiary to the Republic of Cote d’Ivoire in 2018.

He was happily married and blessed with children.

A statement by the spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, George Ehidiamen Edokpa, said the minister of foreign affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama and members of staff of the ministry received the sad news of his death with great shock.

They prayed that the Almighty God grant his family and the nation the fortitude to bear the irreparable loss.

Meanwhile, Legit.ng had previously reported that the ambassador of Nigeria in Doha, Qatar, Ambassador Abdullahi Wase died.

It was reported that a statement in Abuja on Saturday, September 15, by the spokesman, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Tope Elias-Fatile, said Wase, a non-career ambassador from Plateau state, was sick for a while until his death on Friday night, September 14.

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