A tragic wave of sorrow has swept through Odogunyan, Ikorodu, following the heartbreaking suicide of 19-year-old Opesusi Faith Timilehin, who reportedly took her own life after expressing disappointment over her 2025 UTME score.
Faith, originally from Abeokuta, Ogun State, had been living with her elder sister in Ikorodu.
Described by neighbours and family as calm, respectful, and academically driven, she had applied to study Microbiology and was disheartened by her UTME score of 190 — a score she believed was lower than her 2024 result.
“She said her last year’s result was better than this year’s,” a close friend told News Central in a phone interview.
On Monday, Faith ingested a substance locally known as “Push Out,” a common rodent poison. Reports say she later walked to her sister’s office and asked for palm oil — a known emergency remedy for poisoning. Unaware of the gravity of the situation, her sister initially dismissed the request until Faith’s condition deteriorated.
Alarmed by her worsening state, neighbours rushed her to Kolak Hospital, Odogunyan. On the way, she allegedly confessed to having consumed poison at home. Despite urgent medical efforts, she was pronounced dead shortly after arrival.
In a cruel twist of fate, just 30 minutes after her passing, a provisional admission offer from JAMB was delivered to her Gmail inbox.
“The shocking revelation is that she was given an admission message via her Gmail yesterday, immediately after she was confirmed dead,” a family source revealed.
Faith’s devastated parents arrived from Abeokuta soon after the incident and took her remains back home for burial.
