Another Nigerian has committed suicide.
While suicide incidence is said to be on the high side in the country, this time it was a 25-year-old man identified as Nasiru Badamasi.
Badamosi, who had a wife and a daughter was said to be 25, with reports saying he was mentally challenged.
He was said to have committed suicide at Tsadawa village in Taura local Government area of Jigawa State.
Spokesperson for the state police command, Lawan Shiisu, who confirmed the incident on Tuesday in Dutse, said the victim hung himself to a tree using his trousers.
He said that the victim, who was earlier reported missing, was found hanging to a tree in a bush at the outskirts of Zangon Maje village on Monday night, January 24.
“On January 24, at about 2:30 p.m., the District Head of Kwalam, Alhaji Muttaka Uba, called and informed that one Naziru Badamasi, aged 25, of Tsadawa village of Taura LGA, and who was suffering from mental illness, was nowhere to be found after he left home on the same date, at about 12:30 p.m,” the PPRO stated.
“He was later found after he hung himself with his trousers on tree outskirts of Zangon Maje village, also in Taura LGA,” he said.
