A 20-year-old student at the University of Ilorin, Sanni Hameedat, has reportedly committed suicide after being defrauded by a boyfriend she met on social media.
MUK TV gathered that Hameedat found herself in an inescapable vicious circle of debt after the man she met on Snapchat duped her for N400,000, part of the N1 million she was entrusted with by her mother.
And when the mother needed the money, she borrowed N500,000 from online mobile creditors to make up for N1 million.
The deceased was said to have been thrown under financial pressure from the loan shark agents, who were pressuring her after she defaulted on her repayment plan.
Hameedat was confirmed dead at the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital (UITH), according to an anonymous source who spoke to Vanguard.
The source also disclosed that she drank Sniper before the porters in her hostel called for an ambulance to rush her to the hospital.
“From what I understand, the deceased (Hameedat) was troubled by a financial situation she encountered.
“The fraudster claimed that she urgently needed N400,000 to treat his mother, who allegedly had breast cancer. Hammedat, who had N1m she held for her mother, then decided to lend her friend the money in the hopes that he would repay her.
“However, when her mother needed the money back, the boy abruptly cut off all contact, blocking her.
“Troubled, Hameedat took to loan apps to raise over N400,000, which he added to her other savings to make up the N500,000 she gave out to her friend.
“Eventually, Hammedat found herself in a cycle of debt, struggling to repay the borrowed money and facing financial difficulties.
“When we last saw her, about 11:00 p.m. yesterday, she told us she was going shopping. We discovered she had consumed Sniper around 1:00 a.m. on Wednesday. Her roommate, who had gone to bed early (name withheld), had woken up in the middle of the night to find her in difficulty and vomiting and foaming at the mouth.
“She was rushed to UITH, where she was pronounced dead.”
