JSS II student in Makurdi commits suicide over boyfriend

Jessica Beer, a Junior Secondary School (JSS) II  student of Gyegeh Memorial College Logo1 , Makurdi, Benue state, has committed suicide.

The female student according to sources drank a substance believed to be poison and was rushed to a clinic in Akpehe, before doctors confirmed her dead on arrival.

A close friend of the deceased, who would rather want to remain anonymous, told The Nation that the girl committed suicide  because her boyfriend by name Labi, a pork meat seller at Wurukum Market in Makurdi impregnated and abandoned her and then impregnated another girl.

Residents of Akpehe who were startled by the news rushed to the clinic to catch a glimpse of the remains of the girl.