Ex-Minister of Foreign affairs,
Ambassador Oluyemi Adeniji is dead.
He died in London at the weekend
at the age of 83.
National President of the
Association of Retired Career Ambassadors of Nigeria (ARCAN) Amb. Dapo
Fafowora, who broke the news, said : “I have received with sadness, the news of
the death of Amb. Olu Adeniji in London last Sunday.
“Amb. Adeniji was an iconic
figure in the foreign service rising to the position of a permanent secretary
and later foreign minister.”
Adeniji was a great diplomat
before his death, he was the United Nations Secretary-General’s Special
Representative for the United Nations Mission in the Central African Republic
(MINURCA) and Nigerian Ambassador to France for five years.
He was appointed Foreign Affairs
Minister by former President, Olusegun Obasanjo. He served between July 2003
and June 2006, when he was moved to head the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
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