21 Year Old Girl, Dumped By Boyfriend, Attempts Suicide

A 21-year-old girl has been rescued from an attempted suicide as a result of the fact that her boyfriend had dumped her to marry another girl from his village. The girl, whose name was given simply as Ifeoma, was rescued at Berger Camp, Phase 2, Site 1, Kubwa, Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) almost lifeless by good Samaritan and handed over to police. It was gathered that Ifeoma had been dating a customs officer, for about three years before they broke up and that she later heard that her lover, while away in his home town, got engaged to another woman. It was gathered that when the news got to Ifeoma, she vowed that she would not be alive to see her lover marry another woman. “When it became obvious that the man was bent on dumping her for the other woman, she drank a poisonous substance suspected to be an insecticide.” But Ifeoma, who was rushed to the Kubwa General Hospital where she was resuscitated and discharged earlier in the week, attempted taking her life for the second time before she was rushed to the same hospital a second time. This is even as the  Kubwa Divisional Police Officer (DPO), Chief Superintendent Nuruddeen Sabo, confirmed the incident and that the lady would be charged to court as soon as she is discharged. [myad]