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 […]
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Rescue officials are currently combing the water in search of an unidentified man who plunged into the lagoon from the Lekki-Ikoyi Link bridge in Lagos state. It was gathered that the incident happened around 11am. “We were standing here when the man coming from the Lekki end of the bridge dropped his belongings and dived into the […]
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Mr Oludare Buraimoh, a Director in Lagos State Ministry of Youths, has committed suicide by hanging in his room. Buraimoh, who lives at Unity Estate, Phase II, Gbonagun, Abeokuta, took his life at about 4.00 p.m. on Monday after attending to his son Dotun, who was sick. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that many sympathisers, […]
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The lead singer of rock band Linkin Park, Chester Bennington, was found dead on Thursday (July 20) at his southern California home in an apparent suicide, the Los Angeles County Coroner’s office said. Coroner’s office spokesman Brian Elias said his office had been notified by law enforcement of the death of Bennington, 41, on Thursday […]
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The Nigerian Police in Lagos State has rescued a woman named Taiwo Titilayo Momoh who attempted to jump into the Lagoon from Third Mainland Bridge on Friday. This is coming five days after a medical doctor, Allwell Orji jumped into the Lagoon from Third Mainland Bridge as his remains was retrieved from the water on […]
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A Clinical Psychologist, who works at the Ekiti State University Teaching Hospital, Ado-Ekiti, Mr Adedotun Ajiboye, has advised relations, friends and colleagues of persons suffering from depression to be extra vigilant to avert incidents of suicide. He spoke against the backdrop of rising incidents of suicide across the world. The World Health Organisation (WHO) in […]
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Pandemonium is the word to describe what was visible at Oke Initea area of Osogbo, Osun State, on Tuesday, following the discovery of the remains of a 27-years-old man, Adekola Busari, who had hung himself. Reports gathered indicate that Busari, was indebted to a micro finance bank, but his wife had assisted in repaying the […]
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