19-year-old teenager, Opesusi Faith Timilehin, has committed suicide over a low JAMB score. Reports revealed the deceased took ‘Push Out’ rodent poison on Monday, May 13th.
This was after scoring 190 in the just-released Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) result.
Opesusi Faith Timilehin, from Abeokuta, lived with her elder sibling at Odogunyan in Ikorodu, Lagos State.
Neighbours and residents mourned the loss of Timilehin, whom they described as “gentle and humble.”
A family source said the deceased, who applied for Microbiology, also sat for the same examination last year.
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“She said her last year’s result was better than this year’s,” one of her close allies (name withheld) told a news correspondent on the phone.
According to information, neighbours started noticing unusual behaviour in her when Timilehin, at her elder sister’s office, demanded palm oil to douse the pains she was experiencing after taking the poison at home.
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Her sister, who initially didn’t know the cause, ignored her, only to later raise an alarm that attracted sympathisers to the scene.
An eyewitness said Timilehin later confessed on the way to the hospital to having taken poison at home before coming to her sister’s office.
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She was said to have a better JAMB score than her current 190 in the previous JAMB result in 2024.
Ironically, JAMB gave her provisional admission just about 30 minutes after she was confirmed dead at Kolak Hospital in Odogunyan.
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“The shocking revelation is that she was given an admission message via her Gmail yesterday, immediately after she was confirmed dead at Kolak Hospital, Odogunyan, Ikorodu, Lagos,” the source stated.
Meanwhile, Timilehin’s parents, on hearing the sad news, arrived in Ikorodu, allegedly to pick her remains back to Abeokuta for burial, leaving the residents to rain curses on JAMB.
