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  • Sanwo-Olu rescues man from suicide attempt on Third Mainland Bridge

    Sanwo-Olu rescues man from suicide attempt on Third Mainland Bridge

    Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Friday, rescued a man who wanted to commit suicide because he has a debt of N500,000.

    The governor made this known while speaking to journalists after he visited the Lagos Island Maternity Hospital, Broad Street and some other hospitals in different parts of the State, to celebrate Eid-el-Kabir with in-patients and health practitioners.

    Speaking on his response to a recent viral video of a boy begging his mother to calm down while punishing him for an offense he committed, Governor Sanwo-Olu said he believes strongly in paying attention and creating time to little things because there might be somebody somewhere who needs a help.

    He said: “You look at big things but you need to certainly create time for little things as well. That is the difference. You know, you are going to build a bridge and it is nice but you have somebody who is just somewhere who needs a help.

    “Just this morning (Friday), we rescued somebody who was planning to jump at the Third Mainland Bridge all because he said he has a debt of N500,000. We had to rescue him and we paid the debt. Those little details are what make the difference.

    “I don’t have two heads, I don’t have 15 fingers. We are still same human beings. So, we need to show that human part of us while we are not losing sight of the big picture. The big picture is that we want to build roads, bridges and new schools. But we also need to pay attention to little one like the young boy on that video. By the way, I have spoken to him and his mother. They are doing great and I will see him one of these days very soon.”

  • Why I attempted suicide multiple times – Ubi Franklin

    Why I attempted suicide multiple times – Ubi Franklin

    Popular record label boss, Ubi Franklihas revealed he attempted suicide multiple times three years ago.

     

    Franklin made this known in a series of tweet via his Twitter account on Wednesday while reacting to the distressing video of Izuchukwu Madubueze reading his suicide note before shooting himself dead.

     

    According to him, online bullying made him to be depressed.

     

     

    He also stated that he, “got bullied so much on Instagram in the last two years that he started getting depressed again.”

     

    In his words: “I watched this video of IZU reading out his suicide note before he took his life and i remembered doing this several times 3 years ago unsuccessfully and I am here today.

     

     

    “I got bullied so much on Instagram in the last two years that I started getting depressed again and this time I told myself “Ubi” who are these people talking about you? Do you know them or their families?

     

    “Everyone has something they are hiding and won’t tell the public but go on social media to bully others of things that they also have done or their parents have or their brothers, sisters and friends have done.

     

     

    “Why bother yourself with people who contribute nothing to your life? Are you the first to have a failed marriage?

     

    “Are you the first to have kids from 4 different women? Have your learnt from your past? Then came the big question, How can you do better?

     

    “So I started using my platform to speak against the mistakes I have made in life that I feel can be avoided by someone watching my lives or reading about how I have turned my dark days into brighter/ beautiful days and letting people know the truth that is not always told on SM

     

     

    “Social media is full of controlled narratives, the things that don’t make social media that I know are many.

     

    “Do married men come on social media to say they have multiple girl friends? Or do married women come on social media to they have a side guy/guys?

     

    “Do all the Big girls on social media tell how they made their money to live the lives that you are depressed about?

     

     

    “Stop Bullying people on social media, it’s another Pandemic on its own.

     

    “You are not any perfect and you will never be,

     

    “When you see people’s struggles on social media and you judge them and then forgetting how horrible you are in your own controlled reality life and how you can’t even feed, how you sleep with married men to make money.”

  • Nigerian man, Izu Mmadubueze commits suicide in US after being accused of rape

    Nigerian man, Izu Mmadubueze commits suicide in US after being accused of rape

    Social media users, yesterday, took to the micro-blogging platform, Twitter, to express outrage and demand justice for a young man who reportedly committed suicide after he was added to a “list of rapists” on Twitter.

    The Florida-based Izu Mmadubueze ended his own life after being accused of rape. This was disclosed by one of his friends, Nnamdi Anekwe-Chive, a security strategist and consultant, who said Izu took his life because he was wrongly accused.

    “I just received a very troubling phone call in respect of Izu Mmadubueze. He is a relation of mine, who lived alone in Florida, USA. It has been confirmed that Izu from Umueze Anam, Anambra State, apparently committed suicide owing to false accusations of rape by this lady and her friends,” he wrote.

    In June, a Twitter user (@nanichianese) had published names of men whom she claimed were sexual abusers. She also claimed she was asked to compile the list for “safety purpose. I have heard some folks ask for a compounded list of abusers to avoid for safety purposes. I will add to this thread as I find out more names,” she wrote.

    Izu, who was said to have been on the list, had reached out to the lady to find out whom his accuser was so he could clear his name. The curator of the list was, however, said to have refused to disclose the victim’s identity, claiming the victim would prefer to remain anonymous.After further prodding, she disclosed the harassment was not physical, but she won’t be revealing any further details.

    Izu then penned a note asking her to extend his sincere apology to the victim for any form of harassment he could have put her through “though he was still shocked at the accusation.”

    Izu would later take his life. His last tweet on July 17, read: “Oh and if you’re reading this, I’m dead lol.”The curator of the said list has since deactivated her account amid reports that she had made advances at Izu in the past but was rejected.

    Izu’s death has provoked outrage on Twitter with users demanding justice with the hashtag #JusticeForIzu. Social media users have called for tough punishment for people who falsely accuse others of rape or sexual harassment to curb the trend of ‘weaponising’ rape.

    Oscar Romero wrote: “Every time we take a step forward in this issue of rape, there are always those that take us three steps backwards. How can we be fighting to create a safe space for victims to voice out and there are others weaponizing rape in a false manner to get back at others?”

    Oluwafunmilayo wrote: “Women who falsely accuse men of sexual crimes should have to register as sex offenders and serve a mandatory jail term. False rape allegations should be taken seriously too. Nobody should ever suffer from this. It is becoming too much.”

    Another user, @Uncle_clique, wrote: “Accusing someone falsely of rape knowing it would ruin their reputation and everything they have worked for, including their life, is pure evil. If your best comeback against someone is to accuse them falsely, then you are weak, wicked and beyond redemption.”

    Stories bordering on rape, sexual harassment and gender-based violence have dominated the media space for weeks on end, with lawmakers recently amending and passing laws that prescribe stricter punishment for sexual offenders in the country.

  • ‘Kangaroo Jack’ writer, Steve Bing dies by suicide

    ‘Kangaroo Jack’ writer, Steve Bing dies by suicide

    Steve Bing, an American producer and screenwriter, has reportedly died by suicide in Los Angeles.

     

    According to TMZ, law enforcement agencies confirmed the 55-year-old movie mogul and father to Liz Hurley’s only child breathed his last after leaping off the 27th floor of a Century City apartment building on Monday.

     

    Sources connected to Bing told the news platform that the movie producer had been depressed about lack of human contact during his quarantine, although it’s yet to be confirmed if that was responsible for the suicide.

     

    Bing became a formidable force in the US entertainment industry after inheriting $600 million from his grandfather on his 18th birthday, dropping out of Stanford University and using the money to found Shangri-La Entertainment, his own company.

     

    He reportedly invested $80 million in ‘The Polar Express’, an animated Tom Hanks-voiced 2004 film directed by Robert Zemeckis that went on to gross nearly $300 million globally at the box office.

     

    Among the works for which the departed is also known is the action-comedy ‘Kangaroo Jack’ that he co-wrote in 2003 starring Anthony Anderson and Jerry O’Connell.

     

    His credits as an executive producer include ‘Get Carter’ (2000), ‘Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World’ (2005), ‘Youth in Revolt’ (2009) and ‘Rock the Kasbah’ (2015).

     

  • 40-year-old man hangs self in Ibadan, another in Bayelsa

    A 40-year-old man, Lanre Kazeem, committed suicide early yesterday by hanging himself in his house, located at Eyin Grammar School, Molete area.

    It was gathered that Kazeem lived in a rented house and worked in a private palm kernel company around Soka, Ibadan, while he also had no known relatives or friends all through his one-year stay in the area.

    The Oyo State Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Olugbenga Fadeyi, who confirmed the incident, disclosed that the body had been deposited at Adeoyo State Hospital’s mortuary.

    Fadeyi said: “The Divisional Police Officer (DPO), Sanyo division, has visited the area to see what happened. Investigation has commenced on the matter to know what actually happened”.

    Some residents of the area told newsmen that the deceased hailed from Ogun State and left no suicide note behind to explain the cause of his action, while some of his neighbours claimed the deceased had been sick for close to two weeks without any medical care.

    Also speaking on the incident, the chairman, Eyin Grammar Landlords’ Association, Alhaji Lateef Adegoke, said the incident was reported to him and the police had taken the body to the mortuary.

    Meanwhile, the management of Kwara State University (KWASU), Malete, Ilorin, has condoled with the family of one of its students, Fatima Abdullah, who reportedly committed suicide in Abuja on June 18.

    This was contained in a statement issued by AbdulRazaq Sanni, the Director, University Relations, yesterday.

    The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reported that Fatima, a 300-Level student in the Faculty of Law, committed suicide at her home in Abuja.

    KWASU Vice-Chancellor, Professor Muhammed Akanbi, extended condolences to her family.

    While sympathising with family over the loss, Akanbi enjoined parents and guardians to be sensitive to their children and wards’ unusual behaviour, especially when they notice withdrawal syndrome in their attitude.

    Also at the weekend, a 28-year-old man, identified simply as Suga, committed suicide in Bayelsa State. Suga, who hailed from Nembe Local Government Area of the state, poisoned himself with a substance suspected to be insecticide after using his boss’ money worth N150,000 to play Bet9ja virtual games.

    A source, who craved anonymity, said Suga used to run a Bet9ja shop for his unnamed boss in Bassambiri Nembe area of the state. The source said the money the deceased used to play the virtual bets was meant for the day’s work.

    The source stated: “Suga, not knowing how to explain the situation to his boss, made him to take his own life.”

  • Actor’s suicide sparks uproar in film industry

    Actor’s suicide sparks uproar in film industry

    Indian police will probe whether an up-and-coming Bollywood actor who committed suicide at the weekend was depressed in part due to “professional rivalry,” in a film industry that is dominated by big names and has been accused of being insular.

    Sushant Singh Rajput, a 34 year-old actor who won acclaim and fans for his roles in several top-draw films, hailed from a middle-class family with no Bollywood connections – a relative rarity in the industry.

    Rajput was found dead at his residence in Mumbai on Sunday.

    “There are media reports that he allegedly suffered from clinical depression because of professional rivalry. @MumbaiPolice will probe this angle too,” the home (interior) minister in Maharashtra, which includes the film capital Mumbai, tweeted late on Monday.

    Several of Rajput’s friends in the industry have written about his struggles to break through, while social media and some cultural commentators have criticised the allegedly closed culture in Bollywood, where some families have dominated for up to four generations.

    Rajput’s family has not commented so far.

    At least half a dozen accounts by Rajput’s industry colleagues suggested Bollywood’s clique-drive culture ostracised him, although none provided concrete details and it was not immediately clear who specifically they were talking about.

    “I knew the pain you were going through. I knew the story of the people who let you down so bad that you used to weep on my shoulder,” Shekhar Kapur, who was supposed to direct Rajput in a film that was eventually shelved, wrote in a tweet on Monday.

    Kapur did not immediately respond to a request for further details.

    In a separate tweet, actress Swara Bhasker called accusations against Bollywood personalities “the height of idiocy.”

    “We don’t know what he (Rajput) went through. We don’t know the cause. STOP taking out your frustration using the pain of a troubled person… Let him have his peace & his family privacy,” she tweeted on Tuesday.

  • SAD: Popular Bollywood actor takes own life

    SAD: Popular Bollywood actor takes own life

    Popular Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput, 34, has committed suicide in his house in Mumbai’s Bandra city.

    The Bollywood actor was found dead on Sunday at his sixth floor apartment in Bandra (West), according to DCP Pranay Ashok, spokesperson of Mumbai Police.

    Ashok said Rajput was found hanging at his residence and preliminary investigation showed he committed suicide, stressing that though no suicide note was found in his residence.

    “Sushant Singh Rajput has committed suicide, but the Mumbai Police is investigating the circumstances surrounding his death,” Ashok said.

    His management team in a statement released on social media described the actor’s death as a huge loss to the movie industry.

    “It pains us to share that Sushant Singh Rajput is no longer with us. We request his fans to keep him in their thoughts and celebrate his life, and his work like they have done so far.

    “We request the media to help us maintain privacy at this moment of grief,” the statement reads.

    Reacting to his death, President of the Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management committee said: “He was just 34 and famous. He appeared confident and happy too! But we seriously don’t know the struggles everyone is going through.

    “We need to connect with each other. Life is too beautiful to commit suicide. Let’s be strong for each other”.

    Rajput was best known for his award-winning performance in Zee TV soap opera, Pavitra Rishta, as well as 2014’s Dil Bechara a Hindi remake of Hollywood’s The Fault In Our Stars.

    In 2013, he made his movie debut in Kai Po Che! and earned a nomination for best male debut at the Filmfare Awards.

  • 875 people commit suicide during lockdown

    875 people commit suicide during lockdown

    A total of 875 people have committed suicide during the lockdown period in Nepal.

    The country has been under lockdown, against the novel coronavirus disease, since March 24.

    According to the data compiled by the Nepal Police, the suicide cases, across the country, increased by 16 per cent in the first month of the lockdown.

    A total of 482 suicide cases were filed during mid-March to mid-April in police stations across the country.

    The data suggests that the number during the lockdown is considerably high as 38 people committed suicide in the Kathmandu valley alone.

    The highest number, 742 died by hanging themselves followed by 114 people who committed suicide by consuming poison.

    The deceased had used burning, stabbing, drowning, jumping from heights as major ways of attempting suicides during the review period.

    “The suicide cases have been recorded as of May 16,’’ said Niraj Bahadur Shahi, spokesperson of Nepal Police.

    He added that the Police were updating the data of suicide cases after that.

    Many psychiatrists have linked the deaths with mental health of the people, who have been forced to stay indoor during lockdown.

  • Ex-Serbian footballer commits suicide

    Ex-Serbian footballer commits suicide

    Former Serbian footballer, Miljan Mrdakovic, has died at the age of 38 after reportedly shooting himself in the head.

    Daily Mail reports that the retired Partizan Belgrade, Anderlecht and Gent striker took his own life in his rented Belgrade apartment over the weekend after struggling with depression and anxiety.

    His girlfriend, Ivana Stanic, while confirming his death, said they had an ideal relationship and everything was great but he had problems and he liked to drink a lot.

    She said “I think that, in addition to the problems he had with depression, he also dealt with anxiety and that is the main reason why he did it.

    “After the end of his career, he struggled to cope because football meant everything to him.

    “He started working as an agent, but it is a job where sometimes you have work and earnings, sometimes you don’t. He was depressed and anxious.

    “The day before the suicide he drank a little too much and I felt like something bad could happen.

    “I calmed him down, dragged him to bed and we talked all night.

    “When we woke up, he started drinking. I froze when I saw a gun next to him.

    “ I cried and asked him to put it away and I called his mother to talk to him.

    “I asked him to come with me and went to the bathroom to get dressed.

    “Every now and then I looked at what he was doing and then suddenly I heard a shot.

    “ I ran away from the apartment and called the paramedics.”

    His Former club Maccabi Tel Aviv in tribute to him released a statement, stating that they were saddened to hear of his sudden demise.

    The statement reads “Maccabi Tel Aviv is saddened to learn of the passing of the club’s former Serbian striker, Miljan Mrdakovic, who died in tragic circumstances on Friday in his native Belgrade, aged 38.

    “Mrdakovic played for Maccabi in the 2006-07 season under then-coach Eli Cohen, and as a 24-year-old he made an immediate impression when in the opening round of the season he scored a spectacular goal against Beitar Jerusalem as he beat three defenders in a solo run that began in his own half before unleashing a powerful shot from the edge of the area.

    “That season was his only campaign with Maccabi Tel Aviv in which he scored eight goals and set up four others in 29 appearances.

    “After leaving Maccabi he moved to Portugal.

    “He will be dearly missed.”

    Mrdakovic played for twenty clubs across 10 countries including Vitoria Guimaraes in Portugal and Maccabi Tel Aviv in Isreal.

    He also played nine matches with Serbia U21s and three times for Serbia at the 2008 Olympics.

  • Man, 50, commits suicide in Abia community

    A 50-year-old man, identified as Chukwudi Maduka has allegedly committed suicide at Umuezu-Ore Umuana village in the Uhuahia North Local Government Area of Abia.

    The Public Relations Officer of the Abia State Police Command, SP. Geoffrey Ogbonna, confirmed the development in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Umuahia on Tuesday.

    Ogbonna said that Maduka was found dead early on Monday in his one-room apartment.

    The spokesman said the man did not leave suicide note, adding that the command had commenced investigation into the incident “to possibly unravel the reason for the suicide”.

    Narrating the development, a resident of the area, Mr Dave Maduakor, said that Maduka set his apartment on fire before hanging himself, using the ceiling fan in the room.
    Maduakor said that neighbours sensed danger when they noticed smoke coming out from the room of the deceased.

    “When they tried to open the door, they noticed that it was locked from inside so they forced it open and found Maduka’s body hanging on the fan,” Maduakor said, quoting the deceased’s landlord, Mr John Chikezie.

    He said that the deceased was reported to have travelled to his village in Lokpanta in the Umunneochi Local Government Area of Abia and returned to Umuana community on Friday.

    “The landlord said that when he wanted to speak with the man, who locked himself up in his room on Saturday, he told him that he was praying.”

    Maduakor said that the incident was later reported to the Ehimiri Police Station, where some operatives were detailed to the scene.

    He said that the Chairman of the community, Mr Ngozi Onwumere, together with the landlord, consulted a group, known as “kamanu” that specialised in handling suicide cases.

    “The group brought down the body of the man, which was later deposited in a mortuary,” Maduakor said.

    NAN learnt that the deceased worked as a security man at the National Root Crops Research Institute in Umudike, Umuahia.

    He was also said to be married to a teacher in a charity home at Ahieke community in Umuahia but later separated with the woman after their childless marriage.