Nigerian student commits suicide

A 300-level student in the Nursing department of Harvarde College of Science, Business and Management Studies, Obada in Abeokuta, Ogun State, has allegedly committed suicide.

The victim, identified as Ajoke by her colleagues, reportedly took her life on learning that the Ogun State Government had sealed her department for offering a degree programme in Nursing sciences for six years without accreditation, PREMIUMTIMES reports.JAMB Result

An enforcement team comprising representatives of the Ogun State Ministry of Health and members of the State Nursing and Midwifery Committee (SNMC), had sealed the institution’s nursing department for offering a degree programme in Nursing Sciences for six years without accreditation from the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria (NMCN).

Speaking during the enforcement exercise earlier on Tuesday, the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Health, Kayode Oladehinde who was represented by the Acting Director of Nursing Services, Serifat Aminu stated that such unauthorised programmes contributed to quackery in the profession and posed a threat to the health of the populace.NYSC Portal

“We have discovered that many institutions, including Harvarde College, offer nursing degrees to unsuspecting students. Our mission is to clamp down on such institutions because they end up producing quacks in the Nursing profession.JAMB Portal

This is dangerous for society. Unfortunately, most students are unaware that their time is being wasted,” he said.

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Following Ajoke’s tragic death later in the day, which left the college community in mourning, the state government shut the college.informationguideNigeria

PREMIUM TIMES reports that Ajoke’s body was discovered in her off-campus hostel room. Her colleagues and other students said they suspect she consumed a poisonous substance.

A colleague of the late student said, “For more than four months now, she had been depressed because of the fact that the course she was studying was not accredited. She used to think and complain because she claimed her parents used all the money they have to send her to the school.”

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