The Registrar of the National Examinations Council, Professor Godswill Obioma, is dead.
He died at his Minna residence in Niger State on Monday.
Speaking to newsmen, Obioma’s wife, Elizabeth Obioma, said her husband was killed by assassins. She said, “The assassins came in and killed him and left without taking anything.”
But in a letter addressed to the Director Human Resource Management, NECO, Mustapha Abdul, the son of the deceased attributed the death of his father to a “brief illness”.
The letter 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.”
Obioma, an indigene of Abia State, died at the age 67. He was appointed NECO Registrar in May 2020.