The University of Lagos (UNILAG)
has announced the death of Sunday Meshioye, one of its workers, aged 36.
In a statement issued on Friday,
the university said the late Meshioye took his life by ingesting a pesticide
suspected to be sniper.
The tragedy struck at about the
time when a student of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN) drank a
substance believed to be the insecticide in a bid to take her life.
UNILAG noted that until his
death, Meshioye was a transport supervisor attached to the department of
sociology, faculty of social sciences.
“It is indeed with a heavy heart
that the management of the university announces the news of the untimely death
of Sunday Meshioye,” it wrote.
“He was received as an emergency
case at the Medical Centre of the university on Tuesday Sept. 10, where it was
discovered and reported that he had ingested the pesticide, ‘Snipper’.
“He was administered first aid
treatment before being conveyed in an ambulance to the Lagos University
Teaching Hospital, Idi-Araba.”
It said the deceased, before his
untimely death, had been scheduled for a session with the counselling unit of
the university.
The university said this was
after several reported cases of attempted suicide.
“On Tuesday, the deceased
appeared before a panel of enquiry set up in accordance with the extant rules
of the university to investigate the cause of fire that gutted a bus in his
custody”, the university said.
“His painful decision to end his
life came even before the panel had concluded its investigations, as it had
only sat once.
“The Vice-Chancellor of the
university, Prof. Oluwatoyin Ogundipe, on behalf of the entire university
community, commiserates with the family of the deceased and prays that God
grant the family the fortitude to bear the loss.”
The vice-chancellor had in a bid
to check the rampant cases of suicide among the youth, especially students,
decentralised the counselling unit of the institution.
Ogundipe had told NAN that taking
the unit to other sections of the university aside the students’ affairs
department would facilitate access to counselling.
He said the unit was taken to the
faculty of education, college of medicine and other key sections of the
university so that students who might be undergoing some form of stress could
easily reach out for help by talking to someone.
“Suicide is never the best way
out to life’s challenges, seek help, talk to someone about whatever it may be,
” Ogundipe said.
In May, TheCable Lifestyle
reported how Chukwuemeka Akachi, a young Nigerian poet and an alumnus of UNN,
had taken his own life after penning a suicide note on Facebook.
In that same month, a 22-year-old
candidate of the 2019 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) had
attempted suicide over his low scores in the April exam.
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