2 STUDENTS COMMIT SUICIDE IN UNILAG IN 1 MONTH

Two undergraduate students of UNILAG have commited suicide within a month. A young man of about 27 years simply identified as Seun committed suicide on January 19. His action has left his family and friends in shock.

Seun, who lived with his aunt at  9, Alhaja Adijat Lawal, Beesam, Mafoluku, Lagos, where the incident  occurred,  went out to buy a substance and locked himself inside his room before ingesting the unidentified substance.

It seemed those in the house when he went to buy the substance suspected he was going to do something drastic because they later forced the door open, but he had already ingested the substance he went to buy. They quickly took him to the hospital but he died later that evening in the hospital. Neighbors say he was a brilliant student. 

Also on New Year’s Eve, Damilola Durojaiye, a computer science student of the university, also allegedly committed suicide at his parents’ Akute-Ajuwon, Ogun State home. The 19-year-old was said to be a brilliant student with a cumulative grade point average of about 3.9.

He stayed back at home when his parents went for the cross-over service, only for them to come back and see his body dangling from where he hanged himself. The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Mr. Muyiwa Adejobi, said at the time that a suicide note was found where Durojaiye hung himself.