Some details have come out ass to how the Registrar of the National Examinations Council (NECO), Prof. Godswill Obioma was killed, on Monday night.
His wife, Elizabeth, told reporters that the assailants gained entry into their residence and pounced on his and later strangled him in her presence.
“The assassins came in and killed him and left without taking anything.”
Weeping profusely, Mrs. Obioma said her husband had just returned to Minna from a trip to Abuja when the armed men, lurking in his compound, descended on him and strangled him.
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A police spokesman did not immediately return a request seeking comments about the development.
Prof. Obioma had been facing attempts to remove him from office as the head of NECO, a prominent examination body run by the Nigerian government.
Prof. Obioma, 67, was appointed head of NECO barely a year ago on May 14, 2020. He hailed from Abia in Nigeria’s Igbo-dominated South-East region.
Details shortly…