19-year-old Opesusi Faith Timilehin on Monday took ‘Push Out’ rodent poison to kill herself for scoring 190 in the just-released Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) result conducted by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB).
Opesusi, from Abeokuta, lived at Odogunyan in Ikorodu, Lagos State, with her elder sibling.
Neighbours and residents mourned Opesusi, 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.
“She said her last year’s result was better than this year’s,” one of her close allies (name withheld) revealed.
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.
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 Opesusi later confessed on the way to the hospital to having taken poison at home before coming to her sister’s office.
She was said to have scored more 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.
“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, Opesusi’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.
