A 46-year-old Uber driver identified as Muftau Abiodun Musa has committed suicide in Osogbo, the capital of Osun State.
Sources close to late Abiodun revealed that prolonged family pressure to get married may have pushed him to take his own life.
Musa according to media reports, left a note directing whoever found his remains to access his phone for further details.
In the note, he stressed that his family could be contacted freely and requested that no one should mourn his death.
Musa, who had neither a wife nor children, is said to have been battling depression for five years.
The source disclosed that his struggles with mental health were compounded by repeated family expectations that he settle down and start a family.
This was not his first attempt at ending his life. In December 2023, Musa reportedly tried to hang himself but was saved by neighbors.
Shortly after, he attempted suicide again by consuming insecticide and pesticide, which resulted in a two-month hospital stay.
Following his recovery, Musa moved in with his mother for closer supervision. However, his family’s unrelenting demands for him to marry and have children reportedly became overwhelming, leading him to leave the house.
“In his quest for a new house, someone sublet one of the rooms in her home to him. He has been in that house since May 2024.
“The house rent expired in December, but he was given until the end of January to vacate, as the house owner wanted to renovate the house.
“The person who sublet the house told him three days ago to find another house, as the owner had told them to leave. He became depressed and hanged himself”, a source said.
The case has been taken over by Osun State police command.