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  • Attempted suicide: Emirate crew staff hospitalised after jumping off plane

    A female member of Emirates Airlines is at a hospital in Entebbe after she jumped off her plane at Entebbe Airport in Uganda, yesterday.

    The Ugandan Civil Aviation Authority issued a statement saying the lady who they declined to name, was alive and receiving treatment.

    This was in response to reports making the rounds on social media reports that she had died.

    According to eye witnesses, The Emirates flight – EK 731 from Dubai had just landed at Entebbe and was in the process of preparing to load other passengers headed for the return journey to Dubai (EK730) when the incident happened.

    The daily flight arrives from Dubai in the UAE at 1:50pm as flight EK 729 and departs for the same city at 3:25pm as flight EK 730.

    CAA in its statement signed by Public Affairs Department said:

    An incident happened at Entebbe International Airport this afternoon as a female member of the cabin crew appeared to have opened the emergency door (of the plane on the tarmac) and unfortunately fell off an Emirates aircraft that had safely landed and parked.

    Airport authorities immediately engaged emergency procedures and an ambulance rushed the lady to a nearby medical facility where she s undergoing treatment for the injuries sustained. Contrary to social media posts the lady is alive.

    The circumstances leading to the incident are being investigated by the relevant authorities.”

    An eyewitness said: “She landed badly, her legs looked to have suffered fractures and she had glass bruising on her face. He body was also cut with broken glass from a bottle she jumped with.”
    The incident severely affected the proceeding flight to Dubai and flight EK 730 departed Entebbe and landed in Dubai ONE HOUR and NINE minutes after it was scheduled to land.

  • I contemplated suicide last year- Owen Gee

    It is easy to conclude that since comedians make good money and make people happy, they don’t have their own issues.

    Nigerian comedian, Owen Gee shocked his fans when he revealed at an event on Sunday that he contemplated suicide in 2017.

     

     

    Speaking at the launch of Live and not Die, an initiative aimed at curbing the tide of suicide in the country, he said: “I have had suicidal tendencies.Last year, I tried several things, but they did not work out. It was not because the ideas were bad, but the people I was working with just didn’t let them work out. Then anxiety and depression set in.

     

    “It was then I realised that no drug could calm depression. There was hardly anyone I didn’t take. There was a time I was sleeping on drugs. There was a particular yellow tablet that, if I took it on Tuesday, on Wednesday I would only be prompted to barely wake up, eat and go back to sleep even before I finished eating. I would not wake up until Thursday.”

     

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  • Video: Girl asks taxi driver to livestream her committing suicide

    Video: Girl asks taxi driver to livestream her committing suicide

    A distressing footage showing an 18-year-old girl committing suicide has gone viral after it was livestreamed by her taxi driver.

    The teenager, whose name is given as Ms. Nittaya Sawatdiwan, took a taxi to the Rama 8 bridge then asked her taxi driver to stop and help livestream the suicide. The taxi driver, Pattharadanai Noomarinart obliged and filmed the young woman as she climbed the railing of the bridge and jumped off it, into the Chao Phraya river in Thailand.

    After the video went viral, many viewers criticized the driver for not doing anything to stop her from suicide.

    Pattharadanai Noomarinart told police that the girl was crying, drinking and was very upset while complaining about her boyfriend before telling him to take her to the bridge. He further disclosed that the girl paid him extra money to stay with her and shoot the clip. He said he did not stop the girl from jumping into the river because he did not know she would kill herself.

    He was not charged after being questioned by the police.

    Watch video here…

  • 3 killed, 7 Injured as suicide bombers attack Maiduguri IDP Camp

    No fewer than three people were killed while seven others sustained injuries following a suicide attack on Monday at an Internally Displaced Persons camp in Pulka, Borno State.

    Pulka is a town in Gwoza local government of Borno state 135 kilometres away from Maiduguri, the Borno State capital.

    According to sources at the camp, the suicide bomber came to the entrance of the camp at about 11:00 a.m. on Monday morning and blew herself up leading to the death of three persons injuring seven others.

    Pulka was liberated from the hands Boko Haram insurgents by the military in early 2016 after been held for close to two years.

    Thousands of refugees taking refuge in Cameroun republic have been returning to the town owing to its liberation.

    Monday’s suicide attack was the first in an IDP camp in the area since its liberation.

    Security officials are yet to provide details of the attack or provide an official statement on the incidence.

  • Soldier commits suicide in Yobe

    Soldier commits suicide in Yobe

    A soldier identified as Samaila Gabriel, recently shot himself dead in Yobe state.

    The deceased with service number 09NA/63/2867 was said to have taken his life out of frustration.

    According to report, one of Gabriel’s colleagues said he got frustrated as a result of the refusal of the authorities to transfer him out of the north-east since he was posted there three years ago.

    Some of the soldiers on the battlefront have not been allowed to visit their loved ones in years, while many have been killed by insurgents.

    Gabriel’s corpse has reportedly been deposited at the Sani Abacha hospital in Damaturu, the state capital.

    The army is yet to make a statement on the issue.

    The tragic incident comes less than a month after a staff sergeant identified as Silas Ninyo killed one K. Mani, his superior, and injured four people in the Chibok local government area of Borno state.

  • N40k debt: Man commits suicide at Lagos Magistrate Court

    A man who couldn’t redeem the financial debt he owed someone on committed suicide by jumping from a height to ease his legal struggles.
    According to reports making rounds on social media, the man allegedly jumped to his death at Lagos State Magistrate Court in Ogba yesterday.
    He has been tried for owing a paltry sum of N40,000 which he hasn’t been able to raise thereby leading to legal actions being instituted against him.
    Here is a screenshot on a social media post on the ill-fated suicide issue:
    “This man jumped from the 3rd floor of the Lagos State Magistrate Court in Ogba. He owed 40k. Been in prison on remand for the past 6 months. After his case today, he took the leap to his death. The law should have a human face.”

  • Man owing N300k commits suicide Ibadan

    A 57-year old man, Olajire Otunla, on Monday committed suicide by hanging himself over an alleged N300,000 debt.

    The incident which occured at SW8/634 on Ososami/Oke-Ado road in Ibadan, Oyo State at about 1:30pm left neighbours and other residents in the environs shocked.

    Speaking with the journalists, his wife, Mrs Monisola Otunla, a food vendor who could not hold back tears stated that:”My husband was a trader who deals in men’s underwears, he was a very hardworking man. He did not go to where he sells his wares today so he was indoors.

    “At about 1:30pm, I went upstairs to drop some of the kitchen utensils I used and start preparation for tommorow’s business as my shop is located downstairs. I knocked the door to our rooms, there was no response, that was when I raised the alarm and the neighbours joined me to forcefully open the door only to get in inside the bedroom to find his lifeless body with rope around his neck tied to the window burglary protection iron rods”.

    Asked whether she had an idea of what could led to his husband’s action, Mrs Otunla, said:”Although, he has not been sharing series of challenges he was facing, but I am aware of the fact that he was owing the sum N300,000. Maybe that was what prompted him to take his life because he did not leave a suicide note”.

    One of his children, Bolade Otunla, said ”I just got a call from someone that I should come home right away that my father has taken his own life. This is so shocking, I still cannot comprehend what could led to his action”.

    late Otunla was survived by four children, two males and two females, two of which are already graduates. One of them had her graduation ceremony two weeks of which the late Otunla was in attendance, while the second is preparing for his convocation ceremony scheduled to hold in two weeks time.

    Members of the Nigerian Police from Orita Challenge division arrived the scene at about 3:pm and after evaluating the scene of the incident, the body of late Otunla was taken to the Adeoyo mortuary

  • Father of three commits suicide in Ibadan

    A 37 years old man, identified as Shina Adebisi, on Tuesday threw his relatives in agony after commiting suicide in Ibadan, Oyo State.

    As shared by one of the Ibadan media on Facebook, “Ibadankiniso”, Adebisi, an Okada Rider, father of 3 Children and 2 wives hanged himself to death at Okeseni Area of Ibadan.

    The cause of his suicide is yet to be revealed.

    Details soon…

  • Suicide: We’ll resist Bello’s attempt to massacre Kogi workers

    …as labour leader mobilises against alleged oppression of workers in the state

    The Nigerian Labour Congress, NLC, on Tuesday said it will resist attempts by the Kogi State Government to starve its workforce of their entitlements.

    It, therefore, urged Nigerians to rally round workers especially those in Kogi State by donating relief materials to them.

    The President of the Congress, Comrade Ayuba Wabba said this while answering questions from newsmen on the Kogi worker who committed suicide on Friday, said this was necessary in order to avert another act of suicide.

    TheNewsGuru.com reports that Mr Edward Soje committed suicide on Sunday after going 11 months without his monthly salaries.

    “With the suicide mission embarked upon by the state worker, it shows that Kogi state workers are already internally displaced.

    “This unfortunate suicide mission by the Kogi worker is an issue that should worry all Nigerians, as non-payment of salaries is becoming a reality among workers in the state,’’ Wabba said.

    He disclosed that the NLC would soon have an audience with the Governor of Kogi in view of the fact that the plight of workers in the state was becoming worrisome.

    The NLC president, however, pointed out that non-payment of salaries had assumed a dangerous dimension in the country by leading to workers committing suicide, and should be tackled headlong.

    He said the labour union would also take its case to the National Assembly.

    “We will be demanding that the legislative body should urge governors of affected states to pay salaries when due.’’

    Wabba, however, said it was unfortunate that the Kogi governor had two weeks ago during a courtesy call on President Muhammadu Buhari claimed that he was only owing two months’ salaries.

    He added that it was more embarrassing that the same governor had, through the state’s Head of Service, later owned up that his government owed Soje only eight months’ salary.

    “This is an issue the NLC will not take lightly. We are resolute and we will mobilise our people to protest the non-payment of salaries in Kogi.

    “We have learnt however that the governor is in the habit of using thugs to harass people, but we shall be there, because we know he is not ready for dialogue,” the NLC president said.

    TheNewsGuru.com reports that the late Soje, who was a Director in the Kogi State Civil Service, had committed suicide by hanging himself on a tree in Lokoja, the state capital.

    He was a Grade Level 16 officer in the State Teaching Service Commission at the time he took his own life.

  • 16 killed, 18 others wounded in Maiduguri suicide bomb attacks

    The Police Command in Borno on Monday said 16 persons were killed and 18 others sustained injuries in multiple suicide bomb attacks at Muna area of Maiduguri.

    The Police Commissioner, Mr Damian Chukwu, confirmed the incident in a text message sent to newsmen in Maiduguri.

    Chukwu said that the incident occurred when a male suicide bomber detonated an explosive device in a crowded area, killing 13 people and wounding five others.

    He said two other female suicide bombers also detonated Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) strapped to their bodies and injured 13 persons.

    “On 22/10/2017 at about 20: 20 hours a male suicide bomber detonated IED strapped to his body at Muna Garage, killing himself and thirteen persons, while five others sustained injuries.

    “In another development at Muna Dalti, two female suicide bombers detonated IEDs killing themselves and injuring 13 others.

    “The Injured persons were referred to the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital (UMTH) for treatment and corpses were evacuated.

    “Police EOD teams have been deployed to sanitise the scene.

    “In all, 16 persons were killed and 18 others injured in the three explosions,” the commissioner said.

    Also, Alhaji Satomi Ahmad, the Chairman, Borno State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA), said the agency had conducted rescue exercise at the scene of the attack.

    Satomi said that the State Government would provide free medical treatment to the victims.

    He called on the people to be vigilant and provide useful information to security agencies.

    “We have recorded about 13 suicide bomb attacks this year at Muna area. The area is vulnerable and I advise residents to be more vigilant,”the chairman said.

     

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