A 26-year-old National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) member, simply identified as Ernest, was found dead on Wednesday at his one room apartment after he reportedly took a poisonous substance, Vanguard reports.
The young man, who was in love with a fellow NYSC member, Chioma Okewuru, was broken when the girl came back from her village last weekend with a ring from a man she had promised to marry.
Ernest, a graduate of the University of Benin, was posted to Cross River State in October, where he met Chioma and they fell in love. They were serving at the Redemption Secondary School, Ofombogha 1 in Obubra Local Government Area of Cross Rivers State.