Samuel Nkemakolem, Yenagoa

A 300-level medical student of the Niger Delta University, Ammasoma in the Southern Ijaw Local Governmant Area of Bayelsa State, has committed suicide for failing his examination.

PUNCH Metro gathered that the student, identified as Uzakah Ebiweni, dived into the Amassoma River and drowned before he could get help.

Sources at the university said few hours after Ebiweni’s body was recovered, another student attempted to kill himself by running into a fast-moving motorcycle was rescued by other students.

It was gathered that Ebiweni, a student of Surgery and Medicine at the Faculty of Basic Medical Sciences of the NDU, decided to kill himself following his failure to realise his dream.

He was said to be among the students disqualified by the institution after their results were released on Friday.

Ebiweni, it was learnt, found the development difficult to accept and was said to have dropped a hint about his suicidal intention through his WhatsApp status update.



He said the late student might have resorted to suicide after news that he was among the 22 students shortlisted to be withdrawn from the college.

Ingezi stated, “You know, it is a general practice that every student passes the Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery exams before progressing to the next level of academic pursuit.




“But Ebiweni and 21 others failed beyond the level that they could be placed on academic probation for another academic year; so, they had to be withdrawn. So, in our usual practice, we did not break the news to the students until they had been invited for counselling.

“When Ebiweni was counselled and informed that he would be withdrawn from the college, he accepted the decision of the college in good faith and left, only to for the university to hear afterwards that the young man took his own life.”

The first female President of the Federated African Medical Students’ Association, Esite Winifred, lamented the development.

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Nigeria has got to be the only country that is constantly try to move backwards, we collected the poverty capital from India and we're already gunning for their suicide ratings

He was scared of his parents.

this is a sad development...but thank God he did not drink sniper, he chose to dive n be carried away by the sea

Too many weak ass niggas these days, just failing an exam he comitted suicide an exam he has a chance of rewriting in 400level, what is exactly wrong with guyz these days, is it the watching of too much telemundo or abuse of hard drugs that makes them depressed?

Some people never had the priviledge to go to the university and never comitted suicide but planned their life so well that they even became more successful and financial stable than most graduates.

A man who is afraid of failure can never be successful.