Gunmen on Monday night besieged the residence of NECO registrar, Professor Godswill Obioma, strangling him to death in what his wife claims is an assassination.
Peoples Gazette claimed that in a telephone conversation on Tuesday morning with Elizabeth Obioma, wife of the NECO boss, she said, “The assassins came in and killed him and left without taking anything.”
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.
A police spokesman did not immediately return a request seeking comments about the development.
No security agency have been able to confirm the assassination to Chronicle NG as at the time of filing this report.
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.
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