Amb. Rawhide Bawa, the Ghana High Commissioner to Nigeria, is dead.

He died in Abuja on Thursday according to informationation gathered by The Nation.

The remains of the late 65-year-old envoy has been flown back to Ghana for burial in accordance with Islamic rites.

Though there was no official comment from Nigeria’s Ministry of of Foreign Affairs, a source confirmed that the ministry had been notified of his death.