A 17-year-old student of Offa Grammar School in Offa Local Government Area of Kwara State, Adegoke Adeyemi, has committed suicide over his failure to pass his promotion examination from SS1 to SS2.
Kwara Police Command spokesperson, SP Okasanmi Ajayi, in a statement in Ilorin said that the student was asked to repeat the class because he failed the exam, but he decided to hang himself.
The Police spokesperson, however, did not indicate if the student left a suicide note to indicate why he decided to take his life.
But he said said the remains of Adeyemi was found hanging on a tree behind Ariya Garden Hotel, Offa.
The remains of the student was later removed by a team of policemen from the Divisional Police Headquarters, Offa, at about 15.34hours on Tuesday, Ajayi added in the statement.
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“The corpse was taken to the Offa General Hospital for autopsy, while an investigation has been launched into the matter,” he said.
In another development, the spokesman said an alleged notorious cultist on the wanted list of the anti-cultism team and other members of his gang, on a mission to carry out another gruesome attack on a target yet to be identified, were traced and arrested in a supermarket located in the Unity area of Ilorin on Tuesday.
“The Commissioner of Police in Kwara, Tuesday Assayomo, advised parents to monitor their wards and show them love at all times”, he said. (NAN)
