Samuel Adegoke, a student of the Federal Polytechnic, Ilaro, Ogun State has reportedly ended his own life by drinking some chemical substance after losing his fees and that of his friend to betting.
Punch gathered that the deceased reportedly used his school fee to play an online betting on Friday but lost.
Adegoke, who was a National Diploma II student of Electrical Electronic Engineering, reportedly committed su*cide on Monday, when his colleagues were preparing for their first-semester exam.
He reportedly swindled his friend who shared a room with him by getting his password and used his fee to play and also lost.
It was gathered that the school had warned that no student would be allowed to take an exam without completing their registration.
Adegoke was reportedly rushed to the school clinic where he was later referred to a specialist hospital outside the school in Ilaro before he was pronounced dead.
Confirming the incident, the Deputy Registrar, Public Relations of the school, Sola Abiala said the school quickly referred him to a specialist hospital to save his life but he was pronounced dead shortly after he was admitted to the hospital.
Abiala, who spoke with Punch on the phone said “He died on Monday morning while the exam was about to start''.
He said it was detected at the specialist hospital that the late student took a chemical substance.
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