Nursing Student Commits Suicide In Off College Campus Hostel in Abeokuta
A 300 level nursing student of Havarde College of Science, Business and Management Studies, Abeokuta, has allegedly committed suicide.
Her body was discovered in her off campus hostel room on Tuesday evening.
A bottle of substance suspected to be poisonous was found besides her body.
Sources claimed the student had been depressed for the past days, due to the non-accreditation of the institution’s nursing program by the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria.
But the college’s provost, Dr. Ismail Oyetunji disputed the claim, on the ground that the parents of the student came to the college last week, to pack her belonging, after discovering she was pregnant.
According to him, the student found her way back to Abeokuta, allegedly committed suicide, rushed to a hospital at Adigbe by her boyfriend where she gave up the ghost.
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Earlier on Tuesday, Ogun State Government has shut down the nursing department of the college, for offering a degree program in nursing science without accreditation of the program.
Her lifeless body, believed to be pregnant, was discovered in her off-campus hostel room.
Unconfirmed report has it that the depressed lady killed herself as soon as she found out that she was expecting a child.
One of the deceased colleagues, who spoke under the condition of anonymity, said the deceased’s condition was worsened after finding out that the school had failed to meet up with the accreditation requirements of the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria and could not be accredited for nursing, despite spending three years studying the course.
For more than four months now, she (deceased) 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 had to send her to school.
Things now got worse when she discovered she was pregnant and she could not even have a certificate for the course she had done for years, the source said.
Dr. Oladehinde, who was represented by the Acting Director of Nursing Services, Mrs. Serifat Aminu, described a degree in Nursing obtained from Harvarde College and similar institutions without NMCN accreditation as worthless, explaining that graduates from such schools would be denied a license to practice in Nigeria and other parts of the world.
We have discovered that many institutions, including Harvarde College, offer Nursing degrees to unsuspecting students.
