According to reports, a final-year student of Federal Polytechnic Oko, Orumba North Local Government Area of Anambra has committed suicide.

Daily Trust reports that the deceased took his own life on Friday after his girlfriend jilted him. A source claims that the young man, whose identity is still unknown, took the sniper after his lover advised him to find another woman.

The disheartened man was doing his Industrial Attachment (IT) when his lover jilted him.

A student of the institution, Iyke Orji, described the deceased as someone who was “full of energy and life”.

“He was in his IT days, a student of Public Administration. He decided to stay in Oko for his one-year industrial training, (but) instead of focusing on his training, he decided to search for true love,” Orji said.

The school authorities are yet to comment on this development. When contacted, the spokesperson of the state police command, DSP Tochukwu Ikenga, said

''I am yet to receive any report on it. The command wishes to use this opportunity to call on the witnesses of this incident to come forward to us with details for us first to verify the authenticity of this information and possibly to know the cause of the incident.

This will help us to advise people with suicidal thoughts on what to do.