The yet to be identified gunmen on Monday night reportedly stormed the residence of Professor Godswill Obioma, strangling him in what has been suspected to be an assassination.
According to the report by the Peoples Gazette cutting a telephone conversation with the wife of the desease: “The assassins came in and killed him and left without taking anything,” Elizabeth Obioma said on telephone Tuesday morning.
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.
The National Examination Council (NECO) in an official statement confirmed the gory incident.
Mr Obioma had 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 of the ruling APC, was gunned down in Owerri, raising widespread fears of insecurity.
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