Earlyface

An unnamed agent of NairaBet, a sports
betting platform, has killed himself after he
could not pay a customer who allegedly won
a N600k bet.
The Punch reports that residents of
Obadeyi Ajala woke up on Wednesday,
May 24, to find the remains of the young
man dangling from a rope in an
uncompleted shop at Ajala bus stop, on
the Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway.
A resident, Monday Gabriel, told our
correspondent on the telephone that the
girlfriend of the deceased, who fainted
the moment she saw his remains, gave
an account of what could have prompted
him to kill himself.
He said:
“I was going to my workplace around
8am when I saw people around three
uncompleted shops in Ajala bus stop. On
getting there, I saw the corpse of a young
man in one of the shops dangling from a
rope.
“As we wondered what could have made
him to kill himself, a lady, who later
identified herself as his girlfriend, arrived
at the scene and fainted on sighting the
corpse. We poured water on her.
“When she regained consciousness, she
told us that the man sent her a text
message yesterday (Tuesday), saying he
wanted to commit su*cide. She said she
called his line, but he didn’t pick his calls. “According to the girlfriend, the late man
had a NairaBet shop. One of the
customers won N600,000, but he has not
paid him.”
Gabriel also added that two persons later
came and took the lady away from the
scene on a motorcycle.