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Preliminary investigation by the police has shown how a systems engineer and winner of the 2018 IBM competition, David Nketim-Rex, was killed.
Top police sources and a relative of the deceased told
The PUNCH on Monday that David was shot by robbers on a motorcycle on Jibowu Street in the Jibowu area of Lagos State last Friday.
David, who was the son of Dr Yetunde Nketim-Rex, a senior lecturer at the English Department of the University of Lagos, was said to have been dropped off by his cousin, Nicholas, around 8pm.
The deceased was said to have walked down to Jibowu Street near Finicky Restaurant, which has no functioning streetlights.
Late David Ntekim-Rex
A 22-year-old Computer Systems Engineer, David Ntekim-Rex, has been killed by armed robbers in the Jibowu area of Lagos State.
Ntekim-Rex, according to a 2018 statement by IBM, had beaten 17,000 others from around the world, including finalists from Brazil, Germany, India, Japan, Nepal, and the United States to emerge as the co-regional winner of the annual Master the Mainframe competition, organised by AngelHack and IBM Z Academic Initiative.
The deceased, who was described as a tech guru by friends, bagged several certificates and accomplishments before graduating from the Department of Systems Engineering at the University of Lagos in 2019.
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Eniola Akinkuotu
A preliminary investigation by the police has shown how Systems Engineer and winner of 2018 IBM competition, David Nketim-Rex, was killed.
Top police sources as well as a relative of the deceased told
The PUNCH on Monday that David was shot by robbers on a motorcycle along Jibowu Street in the Jibowu area of Lagos State, last Friday.
David, who was the son of Dr. Yetunde Nketim-Rex, a senior lecturer at the English Department in the University of Lagos, was said to have been dropped off by a cousin named Nicholas around 8pm.
The deceased was said to have walked down to Jibowu Street near Finicky Restaurant which has no functioning streetlights.
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