A candidate of the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, Opesusi Faith Timilehin, has committed suicide.
The 19-year-old reportedly took her life on Monday after consuming ‘Push Out’ rat poison due to scoring 190 in the just-released Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) result.
THE GUARDIAN NEWSPAPER reports that Timilehin, who was living with her elder sister in the Ikorodu area of Lagos State, was said to have sat for the same examination in 2024, and her last year’s result was better than this year.
An eyewitness explained that the deceased, at her sister’s office, requested palm oil to ease the pain she was going through after taking the poison at home.
“The source further stated that her sister, who didn’t initially know the cause of the pain, ignored her and later raised an alarm after Timilehin confessed on the way to the hospital that she had taken poison at home.
