19-year-oldย Opesusi Faith Timilehinย took her own life in Odogunyan, Ikorodu, Lagos State on Monday after receiving herย 2025ย UTMEย (JAMB)ย result.
The teenager, originally fromย Abeokuta, had been living with her elder sister in Ikorodu. According to family and neighbours, Timilehin was a calm and respectful young woman with high academic hopes. She had applied to studyย Microbiologyย and was deeply disappointed by her score ofย 190, which she considered lower than her 2024 result.
โShe said her last yearโs result was better than this yearโs,โ a close friend toldย News Centralย on the phone.
After ingesting a substance known locally asย Push Outโa common rodent poison Timilehin reportedly went to her sisterโs office and asked for palm oil to ease the pain. Her sister, unaware of what had happened, initially ignored her request. Moments later, she raised an alarm when Timilehinโs condition worsened, attracting neighbours and sympathisers.
An eyewitness confirmed that Timilehin eventually confessed on the way to the hospital that she had consumed poison at home before visiting her sisterโs workplace.
Efforts to save her life proved futile. She was pronounced dead at Kolak Hospital, Odogunyan.
Merely 30 minutes after her death, aย provisional admissionย message from JAMB arrived in her Gmail inbox.
โThe 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,โ a family source stated. Following the incident, her grieving parents arrived from Abeokuta and took her body home for burial.
