UPDATE: 1:40pm
Clearer information have emerged on the Cause of Death of the The Registrar and Chief Executive Officer National Examinations Council, (NECO) Professor Godswill Obioma. His Son Has Revealed that his father was not assassinated but died after a brief illness.
Updated reports revealed from a close friend to the family said that the Registrar slumped in his room and was discovered by his wife and driver.
The duo drove him to the hospital where he was certified dead.
In a message sent to the Director, Human Resource Management in NECO, Mustapha Abdul by son of the late Registrar, Prince Godswill Obioma the 2nd, the family confirmed that the Registrar died after a brief illness.
The message reads:
“Dear Sir, this is to formally inform you that my father Prof. Godswill Obioma, the Registrar/Chief Executive of NECO passed to eternal glory yesterday 31/5/2021 after a brief illness.
“We request that you kindly notify the Board, Management and the entire staff of the Council of this development. We shall keep you duly informed.”
Calls to NECO Information Officer have proven to be abortive till this time.
Details soon….
EARLIER:
The registrar of the National Examination Council NECO, Professor Godswill Obioma, is dead.
Unconfirmed reports claimed unknown gunmen on Monday night stormed the residence of Professor Godswill Obioma, and strangled him.
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According to Mrs Obioma, 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.
A police spokesman did not immediately return a request seeking comments about the development.
Mr Obioma has been facing attempts to remove him from office as the head of NECO, a prominent examination body run by the Nigerian government.
Mr 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.
The incident came barely a day after Ahmed Gulak, a top politician who served as a Political Aid to Former President Goodluck Jonathan was killed.
There has been no link established between both incidents.
More details soon…
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