Nursing student commits suicide

Ajoke, a 300-level student at Havarde College of Science, Business and Management Studies, a private tertiary institution in Ogun State, is said to have committed suicide after the school allegedly disregarded the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria's accreditation requirements.

PUNK According to information obtained by Metro, the dead student had taken insecticide on Monday night before collapsing while travelling to her boyfriend's house.

It was discovered that the Basic Medical Science 300-level student committed herself because she was dissatisfied with the institution's inability to obtain NMCN certification for its nursing programmes.

As Sunday PUNCH had previously documented, the school functions as an academic institution without having a clear designation of its place within Nigeria's higher education hierarchy.

The private polytechnic was admitting students to study law, nursing, pharmacy, and other professional courses, as revealed by the report "Inside Ogun Private Polytechnic running Unaccredited Law, Nursing, and Pharmacy Programmes."

Students at the college voiced concerns in the report about their inability to tell if they were in a university, a polytechnic, or both at once.

The college, which claims to be accredited by the National Board for Technical Education, was accepting students to study law and other subjects that are never taught by polytechnics, which infuriated the students.

After learning that the institution could not receive accreditation for nursing, even though the student had studied the subject for more than three years, a source suggested to our correspondent on Tuesday that the student had killed himself.

The source explained, “For more than four months, she had been depressed because the course she was studying was not accredited.

“She used to think and complain because she claimed her parent used all the money they had to send her to the school.

“Things now got worse when she discovered she was pregnant and she could not even have a certificate for the course she had done for four years.

“I learnt she called her mum yesterday and told her that would be the last time to speak with her.

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