Head of Protocol of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Ibrahim Abubakar, was Wednesday morning shot dead by suspected armed bandits.

According to tweets Wednesday morning, from the Glass house twitter handle, Abubakar was killed in his Abuja home by the hoodlums who stormed his residence in the early hours of Wednesday.

The tweets also confirmed that the remains of the late football administrator, has been conveyed to his Kaduna hometown for burial later today according to the Islamic rites.