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FUTO Student Commits Suicide By Hanging In His Room (Photo)
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A 100 level Federal University of Technology Owerri (FUTO) student, Daniel Nwafor, has committed suicide. The Department of Chemistry student carried out the act on Tuesday in his lodge at Umuchima, Ihiagwa in Owerri West Council Area of Imo State. He was found hanging in his room. Sources said that the late Daniel returned back to the lodge with his mother about seven days ago and he took his life two days after his mum left the residence. It was also gathered the deceased was initially facing some health challenges and going through pains. The Nation learnt he left a note for his mother later taken into police custody. Reacting, the varsity’s Public Relations Officer, Uche Nwaelue, confirmed that the deceased was a first year student of the institution and wondered why an 18- year- old would take his life. “Somebody brought the picture to me though I have not visited the scene but I wonder why a 18year old person would take his life, this is an end time,” she said. Also, confir...
AK-47 For Herders: Bala Mohammed Says He Was Misunderstood
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Following series of backlash trailing his recent comments on the herders’ controversy, Bauchi State Governor, Sen Bala Mohammed Abdulkadir has defended himself saying that he was misunderstood insisting, however, that carrying of AK47 by Fulani herders was the last option for self-defence. The governor in a press release issued by his SSA Media, Mukhtar Gidado on Sunday stated that “to the extent that not every herdsman is a criminal, the reference to AK-47 was simply to put in perspective, the predicament and desperation of those law-abiding Fulani herdsmen who, while carrying out their legitimate cow-rearing business, have become serial victims of cattle rustling, banditry, kidnapping and assassination.” The statement made available to newsmen late Sunday evening further contained that, “These are the people who, in the absence of any protection from the security agencies, are forced to resort to self-help, to defend both their means of livelihood and their lives.” The SSA Medi...
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