{"id":21757,"date":"2024-03-13T07:02:32","date_gmt":"2024-03-13T07:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/30-year-old-nekede-polytechnic-graduate-commits-suicide\/"},"modified":"2024-03-13T07:02:32","modified_gmt":"2024-03-13T07:02:32","slug":"30-year-old-nekede-polytechnic-graduate-commits-suicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/30-year-old-nekede-polytechnic-graduate-commits-suicide\/","title":{"rendered":"30-year-old Nekede Polytechnic graduate commits suicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>A 30-year-old graduate of the Federal Polytechnic Nekede, Owerri, in Imo State, Nerus Elemamba, has committed suicide.<\/p>\n<p>His body was found dangling in his room on Monday evening, in his village, in Umuohii, Obaoma community, Ezinihitte-Mbaise Local government Area of the state.<\/p>\n<p>DAILY POST gathered that he hung himself immediately after he participated in the village\u2019s manual labour involving his peers.<\/p>\n<p>A source in the village, who spoke to journalists, said the deceased did not show signs of depression before committing suicide.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cElemamba actively participated in village activities and cracked jokes with his peers as usual,\u201d the source added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo one knows for sure what prompted him to take his own life because he participated in the village manual labour in the morning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is quite surprising that Nerus, who was hale and hearty, could hang himself just few hours after work,\u201d the source said.<\/p>\n<p>He said the incident has thrown the village into confusion and fear, adding that the cause of his death must be unravelled before his funeral.<\/p>\n<p>When contacted, Henry Okoye, Imo police spokesperson, said he had yet to be briefed on the development.<\/p>\n<p>30-year-old Nekede Polytechnic graduate commits suicide<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 30-year-old graduate of the Federal Polytechnic Nekede, Owerri, in Imo State, Nerus Elemamba, has committed suicide. His body was&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21758,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[451,384,15],"tags":[118,387,180],"class_list":["post-21757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-imo","category-metro","category-news","tag-imo","tag-metro","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}