Unilorin condoles with parents of deceased student who committed suicide over lover’s indebtedness

By Mosunmola Ayobami,Ilorin

The management of the University of llorin said the institution has received with sadness the death of one of the University students, Sanni Hameedat, by suicide allegedly over a failed financial transaction.

This was contained in a statement signed by the University’s Director of Corporate Affairs, Mr Kunle Akogun, on Wednesday.

The statement described the incident as “a most horrible way to die,especially for a promising young lady who had every opportunity before her to make it big in life”.

Akogun expressed the University management’s sympathy with the parents, siblings,friends and colleagues of the deceased and prayed that God gives them the fortitude to bear the loss.

The management then counselled the students of the University to be wary of the company they keep in order not to fall into the traps of scammers.

“The University of llorin is reputed to be a bastion of moral and acadenmic education and we are surprised that any of our students, upon all the moral and academic instructions
inculcated in them, could have associated with such undesirable element of a supposed boy friend, and even went ahead to take the extreme step of taking her own life”,the statement added.