The Registrar of the National Examinations Council,
Professor Godswill Obioma, is dead.
Obioma died on Monday night at his Minna residence in the
Niger State capital.
The deceased’s wife, Mrs Elizabeth Obioma, told newsmen that
her husband was killed by assassins. “The assassins came in and killed him and
left without taking anything,” she reportedly said.
However, the son of the deceased in a letter addressed to
the Director Human Resource Management, NECO, Mustapha Abdul, attributed the
death of his father to a “brief illness”.
The letter which one of our correspondents sighted read, “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.”
Efforts to speak with the Niger State Police Command proved
abortive as the police spokesperson neither picked nor return his calls and
text messages as of the time of filing this report.
The 67-year-old indigene of Abia State was appointed NECO
Registrar in May 2020.
Niger State in Nigeria’s North-Central has been a hotbed of
killings and kidnappings of late as rampaging bandits terrorise the people of
the state.
Just on Sunday, about 200 students of an Islamiyya school
located at Tegina in the Rafi Local Government Area of Niger State were
abducted.
One person was said to have been shot dead while another was
critically injured after the gunmen carried out the kidnap operation on Sunday
afternoon.
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