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<\/a>\u201cWe have lost a rare gem, a diplomat extra ordinarie, who had served this nation meritoriously. Our prayer is that his soul will find repose in the bosom of our Lord\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cOn behalf of the good people of Lagos State, I want to express our heartfelt condolence to the family of the deceased, the people of Ogun state and Nigerians on this sad loss\u201d, Governor Ambode said.<\/p>\n
Mr. Adefuye hailed from Ijebu-Igbo in 1947, and studied at the University of Ibadan where he earned his first degree in 1969 as well as a PhD in history in 1973.<\/p>\n
He also received a Fulbright Fellowship that enabled him to do research work at Columbia University, the University of North Florida, and the University of Florida in Gainesville.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
…Lagos State Governor mourns the death of Nigeria\u2019s Envoy to US, Adefuye. Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode on Saturday expressed shock and sadness over the death of Nigeria\u2019s Ambassador to the United States of America, Adebowale Ibidapo Adefuye. Adefuye, a professor of history, passed away on Thursday at a hospital in the United States. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4262,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,55],"tags":[171,207,534,749,1280,1735],"class_list":["post-4259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-foreign-affairs","category-governance","tag-adebowale-ibidapo-adefuye","tag-akinwunmi-ambode","tag-diplomats","tag-governor","tag-nigeria","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/akinwunmiambode.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/akinwunmiambode.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/akinwunmiambode.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akinwunmiambode.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akinwunmiambode.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/akinwunmiambode.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akinwunmiambode.com\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/akinwunmiambode.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akinwunmiambode.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akinwunmiambode.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}