A 23-year-old student of the Nigerian Law School, Faith Alayande, has died in a suspected suicide incident at the institution’s hostel in Victoria Island, Lagos.
The Lagos State Police Command confirmed the incident, which was reported on Friday after the student was found unresponsive within the hostel premises.
The command’s Public Relations Officer, Abimbola Adebisi, said the hostel matron reported the incident to the police after another student and a relative reportedly discovered a suicide note and began searching for Alayande.
According to Adebisi, the student was subsequently found after falling from the rooftop of the four-storey hostel building.
She said, “I can confirm the incident. The deceased reportedly wrote a suicide note and, before her hostel mate and a relative could locate her, she jumped from the rooftop of a four-storey building.
“The matron of the hostel reported the incident, prompting police operatives to visit the scene. Her body has been evacuated to a morgue for preservation.”
Security analyst Zagazola Makama also reported the incident on X, stating that Alayande was found within the hostel premises early Friday after another student alerted the institution’s matron.
According to Makama, the Chief Matron of the Law School, Mrs Igbokwe Juliana, reported the incident at the Victoria Island Police Division at about 6:30am.
He said preliminary observations indicated that the student may have fallen from the rooftop of the hostel building.
The incident occurred in the early hours of Friday, August 7, 2026.
The police said an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the student’s death was ongoing.
The latest incident is not the first reported death of a Nigerian Law School student in circumstances suspected to involve suicide.
In December 2025, a Nigerian Law School student, Ayomiposi Ojajuni, reportedly died by suicide after allegedly being barred from writing the Bar Final examinations at the institution’s Yola campus in Adamawa State.
Ojajuni, a graduate of Olabisi Onabanjo University, was reportedly issued a series of queries by the school authorities before discovering that he would not be permitted to sit for the professional examinations.
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