By Moses Okorie
365Daily – The Registrar of the National Examination Council (NECO), Professor Godswill Obioma, has just been reported killed by unknown gunmen in Minna, the Niger State capital.
According to reports, some gunmen suspected to be assassins murdered him on Monday night, May 31, 2021, in his residence.
The deceased’s widow, Mrs Elizabeth Obioma, told newsmen that “the assassins came in and killed him and left without taking anything.”
Efforts to speak with the Niger State Police Command proved abortive as the Police Spokesperson neither picked nor returned calls and text messages sent as of the time of filing this report.
The 67-year-old indigene of Abia State was appointed NECO Registrar in May 2020.
Obioma was the Resident Electoral Commissioner of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Ebonyi State before his appointment as the NECO Registrar by President Muhammadu Buhari.