Hairdresser Takes Her Life Over N150,000 Loan

A hairdresser, Yetunde Oladipupo, aka Iyabo, has committed suicide on Onabola Street, Owotutu, in the Somolu area of Lagos State as it was learnt that the Ijebu-Igbo, Ogun State indigene, had taken a loan of about N150,000 from a microfinance bank and the creditor had been pestering her to pay.

She is said to have consumed an insecticide, Sniper, on Friday shortly after seeing off some friends who had visited her.

Iyabo (Oladipupo) has four children and her husband is based in Abuja who comes home once in a while. She was a hairdresser and had a small shop where she sold some things.

She is said to have borrowed N150,000 from a microfinance bank. When the pressure became too much for her and she could not pay, she became desperessed which must have led her to drink the insecticide to her own death, said a neighbour.

Another resident said two friends had visited her a few minutes before the incident, adding that it was after the visit that she decided to take her life.

She said, “Around 7pm, two friends visited her and she saw them off. As she was returning, she went to a shop opposite her house where they sell provisions and purchased the insecticide which she later on used on herself.