The Registrar and Chief Executive Officer National Examinations Council (NECO) Professor Godswill Obioma has died.
However, there are conflicting reports about his death which occurred on Monday night, May 31, in his home in Minna, Niger state.
Not long after the news of his death broke, reports that he was assassinated spread like wildfire because his wife was reported to have said that he was murdered.
In a contrary report, NECO released a statement announcing Prof. Obioma’s death. The statement said that the first son of the deceased, Godswill Obioma II, in a statement to Mustapha K. Abdul, the Director Human Resource Management, NECO, revealed that his father passed from natural causes after suffering “a brief illness”.
“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.”, the statement read.
Obioma was appointed as the Registrar of NECO on the 22nd of May 2020.
Before Obioma’s death, there were unconfirmed reports that there was a plot to remove him from office.
Meanwhile, below are some of the reactions to news of this death.
