Niger Police Command has debunked reports Registrar of National Examination Council(NECO) Professor Godswill Obioma was assassinated by gunmen in Minna. The Police, in a statement by its spokesman, DSP Wasiu Abiodun, said the reports are “totally false, untrue and a pure piece of fake news.” Many media organisations had reported Obioma.The Advocate
Professor Godswill Obioma, NECO Registrar
Unknown gunmen on Monday night stormed the residence of Professor Godswill Obioma, Registrar of NECO, strangling 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.
Weeping profusely, 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.
A police spokesman did not immediately return a request seeking comments about the development.
Mr Obioma has been facing attempts to remove him from office as the head of NECO, a prominent examination body run by the Nigerian government.
Prince Godswill Obioma, son to the late Registrar of National Examinations Council (NECO), Prof Godswill Obioma has countered reports that his father was murdered. Prince Obioma, contratry to earlier report credited to the deceased s wife, Elizabeth that her husband was murdered, said his father Prof Obioma died of an undisclosed illness..The Advocate
The Registrar and Chief Executive Officer of the National Examinations Council (NECO), Prof. Godswill Obioma died on Monday evening during a short siesta. He was found dead in his bedroom in Minna by his Personal Assistant, The Nation reports. His corpse was evacuated barely two hours after and deposited at the.The Advocate
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May 28, 2021
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court Registrar Office, while returning the federation’s petition on its judgment regarding review petitions in Justice Qazi Faez Isa case, held that there was no any such provision of filing a curative review petition in the SC Rules 1980, hence it was not entertainable.
It stated that on the title page, the case is mentioned as suo moto case; however, on the subject, the case is mentioned as “Curative review petition”. The case amounts to a second review petition, which is not entertainable under Order XXVI, Rule 9 of the Supreme Court Rules 1980.
A - Petitioner No 1 (President of Pakistan) has not executed the power of attorney. C - Power of attorney has not been executed by petitioner No 6. The Registrar Office further stated that subject of the case had been drawn as under, which is misconceived and not as per Supreme Court Rules. The Registrar Office further stated that scandalous language has been used in the case, partic