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Varsity employee commits suicide over financial difficulties

A member of staff of the University of Benin, Prince Carter Oshodin, has committed suicide on Friday over his dire financial situation.

Oshodin, who had not been paid his salary for months due to the strike action embarked by university unions, was a data entry personnel at the university.

It was gathered that the Non-Academic Staff Union which the deceased belonged to has called off its strike recently, but the members had yet to be paid their salaries.

Oshodin’s Facebook confirmed his job description at UNIBEN.

A professor in the University, who would not want his name mentioned due to the emotional nature of the case, told Weekend PUNCH on Saturday that it is disheartening that they have not been paid since the strike action began. He also wondered why those who called of their strike are still not been paid by the government.

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