Samuel Adegoke, an Electrical Electronic Engineering student of the Federal Polytechnic, Ilaro, Ogun State, has reportedly killed himself after losing his school fee and that of his friend to gambling.
Findings by Theliberationnews showed that Adegoke committed suicide by drinking a poisonous substance a few days after the incident on Friday.
Adegoke, who was in his second year, reportedly committed suicide on Monday, when his colleagues were preparing for their first-semester exam.
He reportedly duped his friend, who shared a room with him by getting his password and used his fee to play and also lost.
It was gathered that the school had warned that no student would be allowed to take an exam without completing their registration.
Adegoke was reportedly rushed to the school clinic, where he was later referred to a specialist hospital outside the school in Ilaro before he was pronounced dead.
Confirming the incident, the Deputy Registrar, Public Relations of the school, Sola Abiala said the school quickly referred him to a specialist hospital to save his life, but he was pronounced dead shortly after he was admitted to the hospital.
Speaking with our Vanguard on the phone, Abiala said, “he died on Monday morning while the exam was about to start.
He explained that it was detected at the specialist hospital that the late student took a chemical substance.
The police were yet to react to the incident as of the time of filing this report.
