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

This was confirmed in a statement issued by the Media and Publicity Officer of the Zazzau Emirate Council.

According to the statement, he 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.

Thelagostimes recalls that ex-President Muhammadu Buhari appointed the deceased a year ago.

The deceased was also the Magajin Garin Zazzau and the biological younger brother to the Emir of Zazzau.