Arising from poor sales of his weekly newspaper and magazine, a publisher identified as Solomon (surname withheld), on Friday, allegedly committed suicide in Asaba, Delta State.

It was reliably gathered that the publisher, who resided in Achalla Layout area of Asaba, took his life in anguish following the advent of poor sales in his newspaper business.

A suicide note he allegedly left behind, a copy of which was made available to our correspondent, read, “I cannot stay alive suffering when nobody is helping me. Even my wife and children abandoned me and sales in my newspaper business have been very poor.”

His wife, Rosemary (surname withheld), however, denied the allegation.

In her reaction, she described the claim as untrue, insisting that her husband took his life when it became obvious he was lazy and was criticised by his friends and relations.

The Commissioner of Police in Delta, Baba Usma, said the police had interrogated the wife and daughter of the deceased.

He added that the body of the publisher was found dangling from a tree branch behind his house.

The late publisher’s son, Frank, who spoke to our correspondent, said, “I knew my mum and my sister contributed to what my father did, and that was what I told the police. And anytime my father tried to complain, my mum and sister would shut him up after they had allegedly lavished the N300,000 he took from a cooperative society as loan.”


http://www.punchng.com/news/delta-publisher-commits-suicide-over-poor-newspaper-sales/

R.I.P

Yeye man, so taking ur own life is now a solution.

#Rest in pieces

What's the correlation between the threads contents nd the picture?

You don't call for help in death...

"The Dead stay dumb"
James Hardley Chase

news paper BUSINESSES have been taking a nose dive since almost every news can be gotten online nowadays..



Any ways RIP.

What a family:
Father committed suicide.
Mother abandoned the father.
Son against mother and daughter.
What a dysfunctional home.
God save us.

Committing Suicide won't end ur suffering it will oly make it eternity

Online publishing will force many newspaper houses to close business. RIP

A very hopeless mother and daughter.
If the wife was industrious, that 300k would have been managed and spent well.
Sometimes the way we treat our bread winners can send them so early to their graves.

A foolish daughter indeed!
A woman staying close to my place makes profit from akara and yam sales, enough to feed her family.Lazy wife!

kestolove95:
But solomon chukwudi..why? U must pay d 300K...see ibo man with fish brain

Suicide is never a solution . RIP to the dead.

women! women!! Women!!! ha! in short women are the bane to the suffering of this world since Adam's age. wetin we no go hear? woman D's, woman dat . The man sef no try, why commit suicide when he can establish a church. cool business!


NA wa. I beg if Una wan write D's kind article, I beg dey put 'graphics reading'

Ok

So taking his own life is now the next option.smh

He was probably into a lot of debt & the loan sharks were circling.
Well, good riddance to bad rubbish.

Eyah..mumu family all of them except for the son,because you've been abandone so death is the next option, maybe he's never heard of the cliche -get rich or die trying

Valar Morghulis

life can be frustrating, i see some people blaming him, just pray u don't face the kind of depression he faced before committing suicide.. u think itz easy to die or want to die, he chose not to die by being gunned down by the police/army, if he eventually get rich by 'plan B'

RIPP

I'm sure this Nigga don borrow money and his Bank is on his neck but killing your self no d best option.

The Man is. A Bloody Coward. Now what does does he expect his children to do?

And as for the wife; what's the need. Of getting married to a spouse that can't be supportive in time of distress? See how she's opening her mouth anyhow to call her late husband lazy... only goes to show the kind of wife she was... No wonder the man bowed out due to the lack of support

SmH

Yet another prove of ancestral greediness, no Yoruba guy will take his life upon any amount-lost.

RIP

Eehyaa!! And now he's making headlines for prospective publishers

And now I hope the newspaper business go begin move well....

kestolove95:
But solomon chukwudi..why? U must pay d 300K...see ibo man with fish brain

comment from an insane human with toad brain.

my his soul rest in peace…. but why taking your life?

kestolove95:
But solomon chukwudi..why? U must pay d 300K...see ibo man with fish brain

comment from an insane human with toad brain..

That's sad.
The family isn't one anyone would wish to belong. Imagine the discord between the members of such a little family.
At the end, the man appears to be the biggest loser; I wish he had taken a positive step rather than take his own life, if for nothing else, at least to prove his wife wrong, who still has the guts to call him "lazy" even after his death.
May his soul RIP