Sylvanus Adiewere Nsofor, a retired justice from Nigeria’s Court of Appeal, assumed the office of his country’s ambassador to the United States on November 13, 2017. It’s Nsofor’s first ambassadorial posting.
Nsofor was born March 17, 1935, in Oguta, Imo State, Nigeria. He graduated from London’s now-defunct Holborn College of Law in 1962 and added an LL.M from the London School of Economics in 1964.
He began teaching at Holborn College of Law in 1964 and went into private practice the following year. In 1977, he was appointed to the bench in Nigeria and served as a judge of the Imo state High Court. He spent the last 13 years of his career, until mandatory retirement in 2005, as a justice on the Court of Appeal of Nigeria.
In 2003, Nsofor was the dissenting vote in a three-justice panel in a contested presidential race between Muhammadu Buhari, presidential candidate of the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP), and the incumbent Olusegun Obasanjo, candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Nsofor wrote that the PDP had engaged in intimidation tactics and violence: “I find that the substantial non-compliance with the mandatory electoral law amounts to no election. I also find that there was violence perpetuated by President Obasanjo...May Nigeria never and never again see a black Saturday like April 19, 2003.” However, Obasanjo was confirmed as president for a second term despite Nsofor’s objections. Twelve years later, however, Buhari was elected president of Nigeria.
Buhari first appointed Nsofor an ambassador in 2017. His confirmation hearing on March 1, 2017, didn’t go well. He refused to recite the national anthem when asked to by one senator, Gbenga Ashafa, who was concerned with Nsofor’s age and fitness to serve. When it was suggested that, at age 82, Nsofor might be too old to be an ambassador, he replied: “Go and ask Mugabe who is still working.” Robert Mugabe was forced out as Zimbabwe’s strongman leader in November 2017 at age 93. Nsofor’s nomination was denied . When asked later if he was posted to France how he would deal with 39-year-old French President Emmanuel Macron, Nsofor said, “I will respect him despite his age.”
However, President Buhari renominated Nsofor at the end of March and after a more subdued appearance before the senate, he was confirmed to be an ambassador on June 7.
Nsofor is married and has three children.

Please want to turn our country to Zimbabwe. But God pass them

That is How Age Mates Rolls

PMB!!!!!

Click like if you know this man needs to be deported back to enjoy next level with us here.

84 year old ambassador?...smh

Gosh homie! Imitation is limitation... The shape of his head and hairstyle kinda looks like that of Einstein. If you want to be a Genius, be a Genius. Otherwise, stop that holy crap of dressing like one. Genius aren't born they are made. This Nigga is freaking born and raised in a shithole. I gotta bounce outa thread before I'm negatively influenced with his dress sense. Ain't no brainy.

Only orji uzor kalu, ouk supported buhari and lost.


Buhari is known for compasetting handsomely those in support of him.

Lanretoye:
84 year old ambassador?...smh

The old man is not even 84 years old again jare, by next month, he'll celebrate his 85th birthday.

Birds of the same plumage flocks together.Imagine the president appointing this old great grand grandpa as Nigeria's Ambassador to the US comparable to the one representing US in Nigeria tell us that the man is lost.

Why dey no go place visa ban on is?? Se ambassador like who escape from zoo...

am ashamed of my country. how did we even get to this level? posterity will definitely be harsh on Buhari and his cohorts

the man's statue is something else, I don't know what Buhari was thinking

Awon Mugabe.

Physically and spiritually, we are largely under our ancestors. God help us.

Brb... .