A 19-year-old, Opesusi Faith Timilehin, has taken her own life in Ikorodu, Lagos State, after scoring 190 in 2025 UTME
Faith Timilehin took her own life in Odogunyan, Ikorodu, Lagos State on Monday
The teenager, originally from 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 study Microbiology and was deeply disappointed by her score of 190, which she considered lower than her 2024 result.
“She said her last year’s result was better than this year’s,” a close friend told News Central on the phone.
After ingesting a substance known locally as Push Out-a common rodent poison Timilehin reportedly went to her sister’s 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 Timilehin’s 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 sister’s workplace.
Efforts to save her life proved futile. She was pronounced dead at Kolak Hospital, Odogunyan.
This is bad jamb needs to look into it quickly expesially centers in ikorodu on Thursday morning
Yes it is really bad my score was not even good enough
Omo jamb too do oh
When you didn’t read well
Are you a fool?
We are talking about suicide here ode
That is not enough reason for her to commit suicide, I have written jamb 3times ND my scores were even very bad 180, 176 was my jamb score those two years but dis year nko I put more effort ND I score 209 why didn’t I kill myself then
Jamb results is extremely bad this year
Jamb results this year was very poor
Jamb should be fair in their questions cos writing jamb again and again is not really helping the young youth especially the waiting period for another jamb