South East breaking News
Unknown men on Monday night invaded the residence of Professor Godswill Obioma, crushing him in what his wife suspected to be an assassination.
“The assassins came in and killed him and left without taking anything,” Elizabeth Obioma told Peoples Gazette by telephone on Tuesday morning.
Crying copiously, Mrs Obioma said her husband had just returned to Minna from a trip to Abuja when the armed men, prowling in his compound, descended on him and strangled him.
Guru reports that Mr Obioma has been facing challenges to remove him from his office as the head of NECO ,a prominent examination body run by the Nigerian government.
Obioma 67 ,was appointed head of NECO barely a year ago on May 14 ,2020 .He hailed from Abia state in Nigeria.