By Lucy Osuizigbo/Olawale Jokotoye/Ismaila Chafe
Tributes continued to pour for late Mr Kofi Annan, former United Nations Secretary-General, with messages from President Muhammadu Buhari, former president Olusegun Obasanjo and national leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
Annan, United Nations Secretary-General between January 1997 and December 2006, died on Saturday aged 80.
The Kofi Annan Foundation said the former UN boss, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2001 for humanitarian work, died in Switzerland, after a brief illness.
President Buhari who called Ghanaian leader, Nana Akufo-Addo before leaving London to offer his condolence, said all Nigerians and ECOWAS member countries share in the deep loss, considering the strategic influence of the former scribe in global affairs and his vision for repositioning the West Coast and Africa.
The President acknowledged that Annan was the first UN…
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