Professor Godswill Obioma, a registrar of National Examination Council (NECO) has been killed.
He was reportedly strangled to death by gunmen suspected to be assassins.
His wife, Elizabeth Obioma, confirmed the incident on Tuesday morning saying “the assassins came in and killed him and left without taking anything.”
She said that her husband had just returned to Minna, Niger state from Abuja when the armed men attacked him.
The police is yet to speak on the incident.
Mr Obioma, 67, was appointed head of NECO in May 2020.
However his son Prince Godswill Obioma said the late NECO boss died after a brief illness.
“We request that you kindly notify the Board, Management and the entire staff of the Council of this development,” the younger Obioma said in a message to Mustapha K. Abdul, NECO’s director of human resources.
When contacted to confirm the news, the spokeswoman of Niger State police command did not pick nor did he return the calls. An SMS sent to his phone was not immediately replied to.