15-year-old Nigerian student tragically takes his life over expulsion

Voice Air Media, VAM News Update

A 15-year-old secondary school student, Ebube Efo, has ended his life by consuming a lethal substance identified as sniper insecticide.

Ebube, a resident of Ezeagu local government area of the state, reportedly resorted to this extreme step following his expulsion from his new school, Malex International School, situated at No 2A, Niger Close Uwani Enugu.

The expulsion was the result of his alleged troubled past at his previous school, Evangel Secondary School in Achara Layout Enugu, affiliated with the Assemblies of God Church Nigeria.

According to sources, Ebube had previously faced expulsion during the second term of the ongoing academic session in 2024 at Evangel Secondary School. Subsequently, his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Cosmos Offo, had enrolled him at Malex School.

Upon learning of Ebube’s enrollment at Malex School, the principal of Evangel school hurried to the new institution to warn them about the student’s purported disruptive behavior, leading to his expulsion without a trial period.

The devastating news was confirmed by the deceased’s elder brother, named Mr. Onyedika Offo, an undergraduate who expressed the family’s profound shock and grief over the loss of Ebube, who tragically took his own life on Wednesday.

“I was in school when I got the information last Wednesday that Ebube, my younger brother, drank a substance suspected to be snipper, after which he was confirmed dead. “He was depressed because of the suspension his school Malex International School gave him.

“The suspension was because the principal of his former school, Evangel Secondary School, went to tell the principal of Malex all manner of lies and unprintable things against him. “But instead of taking some time to monitor and watch if what the Evangel principal told them about my late brother were true, the management suspended him from the school, leading to him suffering depression”, Ofo mourned. He said before his brother’s death, the family members, particularly their mother, a petty trader, had observed that the deceased was exhibiting some strange attitudes, adding that he was always moody and unhappy. “Whenever you ask him what the problem was, he would tell you nothing, that all was well with him. We, his brothers and sisters kept asking him if there was any issue, but he never told us that anything was bothering him, until that Wednesday.” Efforts to reach the management of both schools failed as none of them was available during the weekend.

Also, efforts to speak with the Enugu State Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), DSP Daniel Ndukwe proved abortive till the time of filling this report.