UNN student commits suicide after found cheating in exam

A 300 level Biochemistry student of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN), Mba Daniel, on Saturday committed suicide after he was found cheating in an examination and his phone seized.

He was said to have made several attempts to take his own life between Wednesday and Friday before he eventually succeeded in hanging himself on Saturday.

His phone was reportedly seized by a lecturer on examination supervision duty after he was caught cheating with it while writing BCH 353 exam on Wednesday, March 10.

Daniel’s course mates said that he last came to school after the incident on Wednesday. Some of them believe his quest to take his own life was due to depression that he suffered after he was caught engaging in examination malpractice.

Substances such as Hypo bleach mixed with dye, hair relaxer and Captain Jack liquor were found in his room in the Odim Gate area of the university community where the ugly incident happened.

A rope tied to the ceiling of his room, knife, syringe and belt were also found.

Daniel was said to have hanged himself at the balcony in the second floor of the three-storey building where he fell from the rope and landed on the floor and had a broken leg.

He was rushed by neighbours to a nearby hospital where he was confirmed dead in the early hours of Saturday.

President of the Nigerian Society of Biochemistry Students, UNN chapter, Silas Ijaja, said, “The information reaching me through his closest person is that the guy attempted to kill himself with corrosive chemical, relaxer and strong ethanol he mixed and drank but did not work.

Ijaja said, “He then used rope to hang himself from the balcony of his room and fell and fractured his leg. He was rushed to the hospital and confirmed dead on Saturday.

“It is obvious he died of depression over the incident that happened in exam hall on Wednesday.”