Junior secondary school student commits suicide over boyfriend

Jessica Beer, a Junior Secondary School (JSS) II student of Gyegeh Memorial College Logo1 , Makurdi, Benue State, Nigeria, reportedly committed suicide over her boyfriend.


Beer reportedly drank a substance believed to be poison and was rushed to a clinic in Akpehe, before doctors confirmed her dead on arrival.

Reports have it that the girl committed suicide because her boyfriend by name Labi, a pork meat seller at Wurukum Market in Makurdi impregnated, abandoned her and then impregnated another girl.

Several efforts to reach the Benue State PPRO, Moses Yamu could not yield any result as his phone was switched off at the time of this report.