Publisher Commits Suicide over Poor Newspaper sales

                                     

A Delta State Newspaper Publisher Solomon (surname Withheld) took his own life over poor sale of his weekly newspaper and Magazine in Asaba.
A suicide note he allegedly left behind,  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.”

The Deceased Wife Rosemary (Surname Withheld) denied the Allegation,she describe her dead husband claim are 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.
But 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.”