JUST IN: Graduate attempts suicide over withheld results 

MOUTHPIECE NGR reports that a Graduate of Ambrose Ali University, Ekpoma, Edo State, identified as Precious Ogbeide, has attempted suicide over the alleged university’s refusal to issue him and several other students their results after they graduated from school in 2018.

Our correspondent discovered that Ogbeide began to stab himself with fragments of a bottle he had shattered. His parents said that he had been suffering from depression as a result of not being able to receive his results after five years in the school.

After completing the study for five years, some disgruntled students of the institution bemoaned their inability to acquire their degree results, saying that the circumstance had left them feeling demoralized. 

According to them, they are facing a bleak future as a result of the development.

It was learnt that the university had been telling the disgruntled students that the backlog of results would be cleared and students who were still waiting to be mobilised for the National Youth Service Corps plan would be settled.

But a person with knowledge of Monday’s episode informed our correspondent that Ogbeide grew angry and chose suicide as a result.

The source, who wished to remain anonymous, said, “I received a call at around 3:30 pm on Monday saying Ogbeinde had been taken to the hospital on a medical emergency. I was informed that he had been exhibiting symptoms of depression and that they had made every effort to assist.

“The mother told me that he just stood up all of a sudden with a bottle and smashed it on the floor. They told me it was a slip. But he started to pierce his neck and body with the pieces of the broken bottle.

“It was the efforts of his relative present at the time of the incident that overpowered him before he was rushed to the hospital where he is currently receiving treatment.

“He said he was tired of everything. He said he had not been able to face his parents and family members after going to school for five years without any result to show for it.

“He could not get a job because they kept asking him to provide his certificate. He said any time he met those who could help him get a job, they would tell him to wait for his result. He was just fed up with the whole thing and became frustrated that his future was on hold.”

Meanwhile, the school, through the Head of Corporate Communications and Protocol, Mike Aladenika, had told PUNCH Metro that the students affected by certificate and result issues might have had issues with some courses during their time in school.

“If you had graduated and done all you were asked to do while you were a student, you would not have problems with your results.

“Some of the students who did not take cognizance of the deficiencies they had with their courses are the ones facing these challenges,” Aladenika stated.