Student commits suicide over breakup with lecturer boyfriend
A student of Mass Communication at the Federal Polytechnic, Mubi in Adamawa State, Jemima Shetima-Balami, has allegedly committed.
According to information available, the 24-year-old student killed herself over a breakup with her boyfriend.
The incident occurred at Shetima-Balami’s residence in Vinikilang, also known as Hayin Gada, situated in Girei Local Government Area of the state.
She reportedly drank a substance suspected to be rat poison after her boyfriend, purported to be a lecturer (name withheld) at Modibbo Adama University, broke up with her.
Shetima-Balami, the only daughter of her father, was undergoing industrial training at Adamawa Television, Yola as at the time of her demise.
The spokesman of the Adamawa State Police Command, Suleiman Yahaya, disclosed that her father had reported a suicide case.
Yahaya, a Superintendent of Police, said: “The father of Jemima reported that she committed suicide by taking a deadly substance.
“Another version had it that she visited her boyfriend, a lecturer at Modibbo Adama University, Yola, and was told to quit the relationship.
“Angered by the news from her boyfriend, the deceased took poison.
“We are investigating the matter, and Justice will be served.”
