Hours after the media space was inundated by the death of Registrar of National Examination Council, NECO, Professor Godswill Obioma, via assassination, a contrary account by the Council has gone viral, saying the Registrar died in his sleep of heart failure.
Director of Human Resources of NECO, Abdul Mustapha, according to Plus TV Africa gave this counter narrative to journalists on Tuesday morning.
He said “Professor Obioma died in his sleep as a result of heart failure.”
As confusion reigns, the family of the Professor is expected to clear the air against the backdrop of a report by the Peoples Gazette.
The Peoples Gazette, which broke the news, claimed to have spoken with the wife of the dead Professor on phone.
There was another social media post in which an anonymous reporter was quoted to have said:”I am sincerely sorry for reporting the news claiming that NECO REGISTRAR was assassinated. I was confused by a section of the media. The truth is that he actually died of heart attack in his Minna Home. Beware of Nigerian Media. May his soul rest in peace.”
This may have cleared the confusion, but watchers of the development believe a clear and emphatic statement by the family will settle the confusion.
Professor Obioma was born as a native of Amaokpu, Nkpa, Bende Local Government Area, Abia State. He was appointed as the Registrar of NECO on the 22nd of May 2020 by President Muhammadu Buhari.
In 1975, he graduated from Alvan Ikoku Federal College of Education where he studied mathematics and physics, graduating with distinction and as the overall best graduating student.
He was known to have started his career at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka as a research fellow, after previously been retained by the same institution when he graduated. He left the university in 1988 and moved to the University of Jos and became the head of the research division of the institute of education as a senior research fellow.
In 1991 at the age of 38, he was appointed a professor of mathematics education and evaluation at the University of Jos, becoming the head of a department, department of science, mathematics and technology education in 1993.
He served as the special assistant on policy monitoring and evaluation to the military administrator of Abia State in 1994.
Obioma served as the director, monitoring and evaluation of the National Primary Education Commission, Kaduna from 1994 to 2000 before becoming the director, monitoring and evaluation, Universal Basic Education Programme, Abuja in 2000.
He served as the director, monitoring, research and statistics, National Board for Technical Education (NABTEB), Benin City from 2003 to 2005.
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