Opesusi Faith Timilehin, female, 19, has allegedly committed suicide in Lagos State after scoring 190 in the just-released Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) result.
Timilehin from Abeokuta, who lived at Odogunyan in Ikorodu area of Lagos state with her elder sibling, took ‘Push Out’ rodent poison on Monday, May 12, 2025, according to the Guardian Newspaper.
A family source said the deceased, who applied for Microbiology, also sat for the same examination last year.
“Her last year’s result was better than this year’s,” one of her close allies (name withheld) told the publication.
Reports say, 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 allegedly taking the poison at home.
Her elder 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, who was said to have scored more than her current 190 in the previous JAMB result in 2024, later confessed on the way to the hospital to having taken poison at home before coming to her sister’s office.
Ironically, JAMB gave her provisional admission just about 30 minutes after she was confirmed d3ad at Kolak Hospital in Odogunyan.
“The shocking revelation is that she was given an admission message via her Gmail address on Monday, immediately after she was confirmed dead at Kolak Hospital, Odogunyan, Ikorodu, Lagos,” the source stated.