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.
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.
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