The web is currently buzzing,with the sad news of a 47-year-old staff of Globacom Limited, identified as Afolake Abiola,who committed suicide by drinking ‘Sniper’, a popular pesticide.
The tragic incident reportedly occurred on Friday, May 27, 2022, at her residence, at number 1 Abayomi Kukomi close in Osapa London, Lekki.
It was gathered that Afolake who is an accountant with Globacom,was single, and childless had suffered depression for a while before she took her life.
According to a family member, name withheld, “she has been battling depression for a while on account of no husband and no child.”
Contrary to claims online that Abiola committed suicide due to loneliness, lack of a husband, among others, the colleague said her associates knew that she had been in romantic relationships, adding that she ended them due to depression.
The source said, “She had been suffering from depression for years and her death has nothing to do with loneliness or lack of a husband or sex. Within the last seven years, I know she was in a relationship twice.
“She ended those relationships on her own because of depression. She said she did not want to bring someone else into her life when she could not take care of herself. She was going through extreme depression, but people that did not know what she was going through have been posting rubbish online.
Confirming the incident, the spokesperson of Lagos state police command SP Benjamin Hundeyin said “When the policemen got to the scene, her family members were there and they official requested that the corpse be released to them to enable them to bury her according to Islamic rites.
Based on compassionate grounds her corpse was released to her family for burial.”
