Sanni Hameedat, a 20-year-old University of Ilorin student, is said to have killed herself after giving N500,000 to a boy she met on the social media app Snapchat.
The management claimed that the pressure from the app agents, who demanded quick payback, along with her brother’s inability to support her financially, contributed to her melancholy and ultimately caused her death.
The cause of the suicide was found to be money laundering. She was given a big responsibility.
The youngster told the emotional and kind woman that his mother was suffering from breast cancer and that she really needed N500,000. She then chose to lend him half of the N1 million that she had saved for her mother. Additionally, the boy pledged to pay back the loaned funds.
But when her mother demanded her money back, the youngster quickly stopped talking to her and blocked her. This caused her much distress, and she turned to borrowing money from several applications to make up the lost N500,000.
As a result, Hameedat was able to obtain N450,000 from the loan applications and add it to her N50,000 in savings to cover the N500,000 loan.
The management further contended that the previous night, she was said to have consumed a bottle of pesticide known as Sniper, and that her roommate (name withheld), who had gone to bed early, woke up in the middle of the night to find her in distress and vomiting.
In the meantime, terse messages were sent to Prof. M.T. Yakubu, the Dean of the Student Affairs Unit, and Kunle Akogun, the Head of Corporate Affairs, requesting their comments on the matter. However, both individuals claimed to be participating in the 37th and 38th combined convocation ceremony, which began on Monday, October 16, 2023.
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