Wednesday’s building collapse in Lagos which killed 20 pupils has recorded another tragic incident as a woman who lost her two children in the fallen house has reportedly killed herself by ingesting the insecticide known as Sniper. Leadership Weekend gathered…
Rapper Cupcakke ‘safe in hospital’ after posting suicidal tweet (Metro)
Rapper Cupcakke is reportedly in hospital after she told fans she was going to take her own life. The 21-year-old, real name Elizabeth Eden Harris, sparked fears among her fanbase after sharing a tweet last night reading: ‘Im about to…
UNILORIN student’s suicide was drug-induced – Management (Guardian)
07 December 2018 The Management of the University of Ilorin on Friday said that investigations by the institution, revealed that its student, late Mr. Adigun Emmanuel, committed suicide as an eventual culmination of drug addiction. The Director of Corporate Affairs…
Lola’s death is like cutting off your nose to spite your face
E’mon ‘wo’lu! That’s the only way to describe what happened last week- it means, an abominable thing has entered our community here in Ilogbo-Eremi, Morogbo, in this Lagos State. Omolola committed suicide last week because she wanted to spit in…
Troops arrests female suicide bomber in Borno (Punch)
“I’ve been in Sambisa Forest for three years” A 19-year-old girl, Shaidatu Adamu, has been arrested by troops of 251 Task Force Battalion, Maiduguri, Borno State while trying to detonate her suicide vest in the Gonikalachari area. Adamu, who said…
Father of 11 commits suicide over missing N600,000 church money in Delta (Vanguard)
A 59-year-old man, identified as Julius Numa, reportedly committed suicide over stolen N600,000 harvest fund kept with him. It was gathered that he had sent out a text message to his friends and relatives demanding for financial assistance or he…
Only God can explain my husband’s suicide – Wife of FRCN driver (Punch)
The family of Rauf Oladejo is currently in a state of confusion as to the reason why the sexagenarian would take his own life by jumping into the lagoon. Saturday PUNCH had reported the accounts of eyewitnesses on how the driver…
Biafra Zionists threaten mass suicide over leader’s whereabouts (Punch)
Members of the Biafra Zionists Federation on Sunday threatened to commit “mass suicide” due to the uncertainty over the whereabouts of their leader, Benjamin Onwuka. Onwuka and some members of the group were arrested on August 20 while trying to…
Journalist plunges into the lagoon from third mainland bridge (Sun)
A journalist with the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria on Friday jumped into the lagoon from the third mainland bridge in Lagos. The yet to be identified reporter was said to have alighted from a commercial bus conveying him and…
Australian man jailed for assisting wife’s suicide in court first (Guardian)
An Australian man was sentenced to 10 years in prison Friday for helping his wife commit suicide so he could access her life insurance, in what the judge called a precedent-setting case. Graham Morant, 69, was found guilty last month…