19-year-old Opesusi Faith Timilehin has committed suicide over a low JAMB score

The deceased took ‘Push Out’ rodent poison on Monday after scoring 190 in the just-released Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) result.

Opesusi Faith Timilehin, from Abeokuta, lived with her elder sibling at Odogunyan in Ikorodu, Lagos State.

Neighbours and residents mourned the loss of  Timilehin, 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) told our correspondent on the phone.

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 Timilehin 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 a better JAMB score 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, Timilehin’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.

A teenager by name Lawal Hameedat Adenike, is suing the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) and PEFTI for allegedly forcing her to remove her hijab before writing the University Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).

The case was filed on her behalf by her mother and lawyer.

Speaking to journalists in Abuja on Friday, Basirat Ojo, Lawal’s mother, recounted the incident that occurred on 25 April 2025 at the PEFTI CBT Centre in Ibadan, Oyo State.

She explained,

“My daughter was told she could not write the exam unless she removed her hijab, which she wears for religious reasons. This was a painful and humiliating experience for her. As her mother, I had to take action to protect her rights.”

The lawsuit demands a public apology from JAMB and PEFTI, to be published in two national newspapers, and compensation for the violation of her rights. It also seeks a court declaration that any rule requiring the removal of hijabs by female candidates is unconstitutional.

Qousim Opakunle, Lawal’s lawyer, emphasised the legal basis for the case.

He said,

“This demand violates Section 38 of the Nigerian Constitution, which guarantees freedom of thought, conscience, and religion. It is our duty to protect these fundamental rights, especially for minors who cannot defend themselves.”

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has released the results of the much-anticipated 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME)

Sadly, this year, 1.5 million of the 1,955,069 applicants who took the 2025 UTME this year received scores lower than 200.

JAMB disclosed this on Monday in their statistical analysis of the 2025 UTME results.

According to the data, in the 2025 UTME, only 420,415 applicants received a score higher than 200.

Less than 1% of the candidates scored higher than 300 on the test, while 75% of the candidates scored lower than 200, according to the data.

JAMB also disclosed that 2,157 candidates who sat for the 2025 UTME are currently under investigation for alleged examination malpractices.

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