47-Year-Old Globacom Female Accountant Commits Suicide In Lekki After Depression Challenges

A 47 year female accountant at Globacom (a telecommunications company in Lagos), Folake Abiola, has allegedly committed suicide at her residence at Osapa London, in the Lekki area of Lagos State.

It was alleged that she carried out the act by drinking ‘Sniper’, a popular pesticide. She was said to have died shortly after, and her family members, friends and men of the Nigeria Police Force met her lying motionless.

It was gathered that Afolake who is single, and childless had suffered depression for a while before she took her life.

According to a family member, name withheld, “she has been battling depression for a while on account of no husband and no child.”

Confirming the incident, one of her colleagues who spoke on condition of anonymity said Abiola had been suffering from depression for years, adding that the news of her death was shocking. The colleague said contrary to claims online that Abiola committed suicide due to loneliness, lack of a husband, among others, the colleague said her associates knew that she had been in romantic relationships, adding that she ended them due to depression.

“She had been suffering from depression for years and her death has nothing to do with loneliness or lack of a husband or sex. Within the last seven years, I know she was in a relationship twice.

She ended those relationships on her own because of depression. She said she did not want to bring someone else into her life when she could not take care of herself. She was going through extreme depression, but people that did not know what she was going through have been posting rubbish online.

She took her life herself and was buried that same Friday as she was the only Christian in her family.”the colleague said.

Confirming the incident to newsmen, the spokesperson of the state police command, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, said the police visited Abiola’s house and met her lifeless body on the floor.

“The moment the police in that area were alerted, they arrived at the scene and met the woman lifeless on the floor. A bottle of insecticide was also found on her, apparently, she had ingested that insecticide.

The family members that were there officially wrote to the divisional police officer requesting for the release of the corpse to enable them to bury her in accordance with Islamic rites and the corpse was released to the family on compassionate grounds.”he said. May her soul rest in peace. Amen.