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  • Tragic! Nigerian facing deportation commits suicide

    A fifty-six-year-old Nigerian identified as Anthony Akinyemi has died in the custody of the United States (U.S.) Immigration and Enforcement (ICE).

    ICE said in a statement on its website yesterday that the sad incident occurred at the Worcester County Jail in Snow Hill, Maryland, on Saturday.

    It said the preliminary cause of death “appears to be self-inflicted strangulation”, a euphemism for suicide, adding that the case is under investigation.

    At the time of his death, Akinyemi was facing deportation to Nigeria for sexual abuse of a minor, according to the agency.

    Akinyemi was pronounced dead at 5:23 a.m. local time on Dec. 21, 2019, after he was found unresponsive in his cell.

    Efforts by facility staff and emergency personnel to revive him were unsuccessful.

    Akinyemi had been in ICE custody less than 24 hours.

    He entered ICE custody Dec. 20, one day after he was convicted in Baltimore City Circuit Court for a sex offence and assault.

    ICE had previously lodged an immigration detainer against Akinyemi on July 23, 2019, pursuant to his arrest for sexual abuse of a minor.

    Akinyemi entered the U.S. lawfully on a non-immigrant visa in December 2017, but he allegedly failed to comply with the terms of his admission.

    “At the time of his death, Akinyemi was in removal proceedings before the federal immigration courts,” ICE said.

     

  • Gunman kills six in hospital waiting room, commits suicide moments after

    Gunman kills six in hospital waiting room, commits suicide moments after

    A gunman who opened fire today in the Technical University hospital in Ostrava in the Czech Republic killing six people and seriously injuring two others shot himself when police tracked him down.

    Czech Radio’s flagship station Radiožurnál identified the man as Citrad V., a 42-year-old man from Opava. He was a construction engineer whose boss said had become convinced “he was seriously ill and no-one wanted to treat him”.

    The suspect entered the building at around 7am Tuesday morning in the Czech city of Ostrava and opened fire in the trauma unit waiting room at close range, aiming at victim’s heads and necks.

    A manhunt was launched with patients and staff evacuated from the building as armed police swarmed the area and put the building on lockdown.

    Authorities advised ‘maximum possible caution’ as the man was ‘armed and dangerous’ after he fled the scene in a silver Renault car.

    The Czech gunman, Citrad V

    When officers cornered the 42-year-old suspect around three hours after the massacre, he shot himself in the head while sitting in his vehicle, police said.

    Officers hunting the gunman asked the public for help in identifying him by posting on Twitter a CCTV image of him walking the hospital corridors.

    The suspect allegedly shot people at close range as they sat waiting in the trauma ward of the Faculty Hospital in Ostrava, a steel hub located around 190 miles (300 kilometres) east of Prague.

    Some nurses were seen hiding behind parked cars as the shooting unfolded and the building had to be evacuated while police boosted security across the country.

    A witnesses described the moment the shooter walked in and began firing before reloading his weapon.

    She told TV Nova: ‘He came into the waiting room and started firing at the people waiting there before the surgery. When he fired the magazine, he reloaded the gun and fired again.’

    The number of people killed was initially said to be four with two injured, but that figure quickly rose to six dead, Health Minister Adam Vojtech told Czech Radio today.

    Four victims were pronounced dead at the scene and two others succumbed to the injuries they suffered, local media reported.

  • Daphne Dorman, transgender comedian, dies after penning suicide note

    Daphne Dorman, transgender comedian, dies after penning suicide note

    • Daphne Dorman, a Philadelphia-born transgender comedian and actress is dead.

    The famed activist, who was referenced in ‘Sticks And Stones’, Dave Chappelle’s Netflix comedy special, passed away on October 11, after leaving a suicide note on his Facebook handle.

    “I’m sorry. I’ve thought about this a lot before this morning. How do you say “goodbye” and “I’m sorry” and “I love you” to all the beautiful souls you know? For the last time. There’s no good way. That’s what I got out of all that thought,” she wrote.

    “To those of you who are mad at me: please forgive me. To those of you who wonder if you failed me: you didn’t. To those of you feel like I failed you: I did and I’m sorry and I hope you’ll remember me in better times and better light.

    “Please help my daughter, Naia, understand that none of this is her fault. Please remind her that I loved her with every fiber of my being.”

    Following the confirmation of her demise, the trans personality’s loved ones took to social media to commiserate with her family for the loss.

    The office of Transgender Initiatives in San Francisco also offered to counsel people of similar ideologies experiencing hard times.

    They urged anyone who needs support to reach out to Trans Lifeline and Trans: Thrive.

    “Sweet, sweet Daphne. I so wish we could all have helped you through your darkness. We’ll always love you, fly high sweet angel,” Becky Kugler, Dorman’s sister, wrote, wile confirming that she had died by suicide.

    Dorman was renowned as a TV and stage actress but also doubled as a software engineer who fought for trans-rights and volunteered at the San Francisco LGBT center as an instructor for Transcode, a program to help transgender people begin careers in technology.

  • Pastor commits suicide, jumps 3 floors to death [Photos]

    Pastor commits suicide, jumps 3 floors to death [Photos]

    A Senior pastor has jumped into his death in apparent suicide.Reverend Berry Dambaza of the Upper Room Ministries died after throwing himself from the third floor of a building.

    The incident happened at Rezende Parkade in Harare, Zimbabwe.

    A Zimbabwe online news platform, iharare that reported the suicide said the reasons and circumstances of the incident were not immediately clear.

    It reported speculations of financial problems or infidelity.

    Dambaza died on the spot and people had to call the police to attend the scene.

    National police spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi confirmed the incident.

    “We can confirm that a church pastor allegedly jumped from the last floor of Rezende Parkade and died. We are currently investigating the case to establish the motive or the reasons behind this suicide,” he said.

  • Man, 25 commits suicide over failed relationship in Lagos

    Man, 25 commits suicide over failed relationship in Lagos

    25-year-old Kehinde Muse has committed suicide after his 21-year-old lover dumped him.

    The incident occurred at 56, Modele Street Surulere, Lagos Mainland.

    His case brought to five, the number of suicide incidents reported to the police since July.

    It was gathered that his lover, Rasheedat Animashaun, had dumped him two weeks ago because of his alleged high libido.

    According to reports, the young woman had complained Muse liked sex and she could not cope with it.

    Another issue, it was gathered, stemmed from the fact that the young man was not working and depended on the girl financially.

    “The guy was not going anything. It was the girl that was working as an office secretary.

    “She was the one taking care of him financially. He was even sent to learn how to repair air conditioners but he did not achieve much there.

    “So, two weeks ago, the girl said she was tired and dumped him. She complained that all he does was sit at home, eat free food and then have sex countless times,” a source said.

    Unable to accept their breakup, Muse was said to have sent a message to Animashaun threatening to commit suicide if she insisted on leaving him.

    She was said to have notified his parents about the message who ran to his room only to discover that Muse had drunk a poisonous substance suspected to be sniper.

    His parents were said to have rushed him to a hospital but he died on arrival.

    Confirming the incident, police spokesman Bala Elkana, a Deputy Superintendent (DSP), said: “Preliminary investigation revealed that the deceased person earlier sent a suicide text message to his ex –girlfriend, informing her that he will take his life since she decided to quit the relationship.

    “The said girlfriend promptly informed his family about the text message he sent to her and they rushed to his house, broke the door and found him unconscious.

    “He was rushed to the hospital but did not make it. His corpse has been deposited in the mortuary for autopsy.”

  • I wanted to take my life in 2017- Ubi Franklin

    I wanted to take my life in 2017- Ubi Franklin

    Music executive and entrepreneur, Ubi Franklin has revealed that he wanted to take his life in 2017. The Triple MG boss made this known while sharing a photo from a shoot he did in April 2017.

    In his words: “April 23rd 2017 after this photoshoot I wanted this to be the last pictures I will take in my life.

    On this day I was depressed out of my mind and wanted to take my life. Today I am grateful to God I didn’t.

    Whatever you are going through now I promise you it’s a phase, keep pushing it will pass “.

     

    TheNewsGuru recalls that the ex-husband of Lilian Esoro said divorce can sometimes be the best option in marriage.

    According to him: “I am proud of many things in my life but nothing beats being a dad to these two wonderful souls,” he captioned a picture of his two children, Jayden and Zaneta.

    “We often talk about what goes into a marriage, but seldom we openly discuss what happens when it ends. The journey of love has a unique language.

    “We all strive to find people capable of understanding that unique language, our intricacies and in turn understanding their complexities.

    “No one ever plans or expects to get a divorce when they get married, but sometimes it’s the only and the best way forward for everyone involved.”

     

    Franklin got married to Esoro in November 2015 and the duo welcomed their son in 2016.

    The duo parted ways not long after the birth of their son.

     

     

  • Mental disorder accounts for high suicide rate-Psychiatrist

    Mental disorder accounts for high suicide rate-Psychiatrist

    A Consultant Psychiatrist, Dr Kafayat Ogunsola, has said mental disorder accounts for 90 per cent of suicide cases in the country.

    Ogunsola, who works at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Idi-Araba, Lagos, spoke on the sidelines of the 2019 World Suicide Prevention Day.

    She said: “Ninety per cent of cases of suicide occur as a result of mental disorder; it is as a result of depression. There are some personalities in certain individuals; things happen to us from time to time and our ability to cope or deal with it is one of the reasons or determine who is able to overcome. We need to understand why people are committing suicide.

    “We need to understand the gender that commits it more, and what were the reasons, relationship, mental disorder and that is what we have been able to analyse in our research…’’ Ogunsola said.

    The psychiatrist said people were going through some adversity.

    She said: “It is not the end of the world for them, but if people are equipped with the right idea, they will overcome.

    “This is because mental disorder is a factor in our environment, people tend to stigmatise patients by defining it in mysterious ways.’’

    Ogunsola said besides mental disorder, break ups, hardship, unemployment and financial issues were reasons people commit suicide.

    She said Suicide Research and Prevention Initiative (SURPIN), an initiative of LUTH, was established due to increasing suicide.

    The expert stated that SURPIN had identified some reasons why people commit suicide, which gender do it more, and the problems that make people commit suicide.

    She, therefore, advised that whatever challenges humans face in life, suicide should not be an option.

    Ogunsola said SURPIN would embark on more research, training, funding through grants, skill acquisition, among others, to curb suicide.

     

  • ‘More men likely to commit suicide than women’

    ‘More men likely to commit suicide than women’

    Dr Uchendu Onyedika, a Neuropsychiatrist with the University of Abuja Teaching Hospital, says though more women tend to attempt suicide; men are more likely to be decisive in ending their lives.

    Onyedika, who said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), in Abuja on Saturday, defined suicide as an act of intentionally causing one’s own death.

    According to him, men are more likely to end their lives because they are more decisive and they tend to complete whatever they decide to do.

    He added that women on the other hand, were more emotional and more likely to try to seek attention by attempting to kill themselves than actually being able to do so.

    Onyedika noted that suicide is the 10th leading cause of death globally, with approximately 12 in 100,000 people deliberately ending their own lives.

    According to him, most people who commit suicide have been experiencing depression for a while, adding that causes of depression varies from sudden tragic life events such as accidents, which often lead to physical disability.

    He further listed other factors as loss of livelihood, loved ones and jobs, as well as prolonged periods of hardship and diagnoses of chronic or terminal diseases.

    Onyedika said though a significant number of people who often committed suicide might not necessarily have been depressed for a while; they could have suffered very disgraceful events of life and incurred shame and loss of their self-dignity.

    “For example an act of infidelity to one’s spouse uncovered and made public, especially when a lady is involved, or for persons with chronic medical illnesses such a seizure disorder, which often occurs in public.

    “Also patients with mental illness who may have had a relapse in the open and only become aware of their environment after regaining consciousness.

    “Another noteworthy cause of completed suicide is auditory hallucinations, which are voices of unseen persons, which sometimes instruct victims to go and kill themselves by various means.

    “Some recorded acts of complete suicide and others of attempted suicide have been from victims’ obedience to these unseen voices,’’ Onyedika said.

    He mentioned other factors that could predispose one to suicide to include substance misuse such as alcohol dependence which had been linked to higher risk of suicide and genetics.

    Onyedika listed other signs of suicidal persons as loss of interest in previously pleasurable activities and loss of appetite.

    Others he said, included disturbed sleep pattern, expressions of despair, hopelessness, helplessness, pulling away from friends and family, increased alcohol or psychoactive substance abuse, increased risk taking behaviour, rage and irritability.

    Also, sometimes a sudden change in mood for the better, `usually close to when the act of suicide is to be committed’.

    The Neuropsychiatrist said further that many victims of suicide had in one way or the other expressed their suicidal intents to their close friends, as well as on the social media, but were not taken seriously.

    “Comments like, `he mentioned being tired of life a couple of times but I never took him seriously.

    “Was there something I could have done? I should have seen it coming, are common words expressed by close friends and relatives of victims after the attempted or completed suicide.

    “We must know that most people do not want to die; they just want the pain of the moment to stop.

    “If we observe there is tendency to commit suicide by a person, we should commit to lovingly finding out the person’s problems and offer advice or help to resolve the problems, we will save such persons from death,’’ he said.

    Onyedika said everyone needed high level of suspicion and awareness to recognise persons with such tendencies in order to offer a listening ear, advice and take them to a Psychiatrist for proper evaluation, psychotherapy and possibly, medications.

    “Suicide is not inevitable; we only need to be more sensitive and helpful, more conscious of signs and symptoms of depression, and more enlightened on likely predispositions to the act of suicide.

    “If also, we are all ready to be our brother’s keeper, then we will help not a few souls in averting untimely death,’’ Onyedika said.

  • Suicide: Man drinks fumigation chemical over N700

    A 20-year-old man has committed suicide by drinking fumigation chemical (Quick Action Spray) after his mother refused to give him N700 to settle a pressing need in Awhire community, Ughelli North, Delta State.
    Daily Post reports that the deceased, Augustine Okpako, had requested the said money from his mother, who in turn promised to give him the money the following day (today).
    The deceased said he cannot wait till the following day, even as his mother was at the time frying garri she will take to the market so she could raise the money.
    According to an eyewitness, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said, “suddenly we just see that he drank the chemical. He drank quick action that farmers normally used to spray grass.”
    The eyewitness claimed that the container of the fumigation chemical was empty and there were signs of it on his mouth and shirt, indicating that he may have drank it to commit suicide.
    The deceased was later rushed to a Cottage Hospital in Erhoike Community in Ethiope-East Local Government Area where he was confirmed dead by doctors.
    The Delta State Police Command is yet to make any official statement concerning the incident.

  • 27-year-old graduate commits suicide to to escape disturbances from family, landlord

    27-year-old graduate commits suicide to to escape disturbances from family, landlord

    A 27-year-old graduate, Nsisong Okon Etim, has committed suicide at Efiat Ikot Edo community in Uyo Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State.
    He was said to have killed himself on Tuesday over alleged frequent disturbances by his mother, step-brother and landlord.
    The deceased, a graduate, disclosed the reasons for taking his life in a suicide note he dropped before hanging himself.
    In the note, the late Nsisong said: “I am ending my miserable life to escape from constant worries and disturbances by my mother, step-brother and the landlord, whose shop I rented to sell cooking gas.”
    The suicide has continued to shock residents of Ukpong Edet Street in the Effiat Ikot Edo Offot community where the deceased lived with his mother.
    Family sources said the deceased completed the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) programme last year and went into the business of selling cooking gas on the Old Ring Road, Uyo, “because of inability to get a job.”
    The deceased, one of the sons of the late village head of the community, Chief Etim Eton, according to her sister, Miss Edidiong Okon Etim, “was very discreet and always kept to himself.”
    “He rarely ate our mother’s food. He usually cooked for himself.”
    It was gathered that the deceased, after returning from shop in the evening, locked himself in his room, removed his clothes and wore boxer shorts. He broke the ceiling, tied a rope to the rafters and strangled himself.”
    His mother, Mrs. Patience Eton, who was in tears on Wednesday morning when his remains were being lowered from the rafters for ritual and burial, was too shock to speak.
    The youth leader (Obong Effak) of Umoebet\Esuene streets, Comrade Godwin Okon Sunday, expressed sadness about what he described as “an unfortunate incident.”
    “I saw him recently. He was an introvert.
    “I think based on the content of his suicide note, he was frustrated following the hardship in the country,” the youth leader said.
    He urged the government to create what he called “economic windows and social security palliatives, to cushion the effect of the prevailing harsh economic realities caused by high unemployment rate in the country.”