An 80-year-old man named Isiyaka Ayinde reportedly committed suicide at the Watch Tower in the Araromi Imota area of Lagos State.
PUNCH Online learned that the incident happened around 7:30 p.m. on Thursday.
A police source told our correspondent that a tenant in the compound reported that the man hanged himself with a rope in the kitchen.
The police source said: "He heard his children shouting for him to come and see Baba in the kitchen. When he ran into the kitchen, he saw the lifeless body of the tenant hanging on a rope that was tied to the burglary proof of one of the windows in the kitchen."
When reached for comment, the state Police Public Relations Officer, Benjamin Hundeyin, confirmed the incident.
He added that due to the deceased's age and religious beliefs, the family insisted on an immediate burial.
He said, "The scene has been visited by the DCB personnel of the division, and photographs were taken.
The deceased's family is not interested in depositing the body at the mortuary but prefer burial immediately due to the age and religious inclination of the deceased.
In January, PUNCH reported that a female marketing employee of a bank in Ikorodu, Lagos State, died by suicide.
The woman, 32-year-old Amarachi Ugochukwu, reportedly drank an insecticide.
