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Nineteen-year-old Opesusi Faith Timilehin died by suicide in Ikorodu, Lagos, after scoring 190 in her 2025 UTME
A nineteen-year-old, Opesusi Faith Timilehin, has reportedly committed suicide on May 12, 2025, after receiving her UTME score from the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB).
According to reports by journalist Seun Oloketuyi, Faith had been living with her elder sister in the Odogunyan area of Ikorodu, Lagos State. She was reportedly heartbroken after finding out her (UTME) score was 190.
She believed it was far lower than her previous year’s result and feared it wouldn’t secure her a place in the university course she had applied for.
“She said her last year’s result was better than this year’s,” a close friend said.
Faith ingested a locally known rodent poison, Push Out. She later showed up at her sister’s office asking for palm oil to ease the pain in her body—her sister, unaware of what had happened, initially ignored the request. When Faith’s condition worsened moments later, neighbours and bystanders rushed to assist.
An eyewitness shared that Faith eventually confessed, while being rushed to the hospital, that she had poisoned herself. Despite frantic efforts to save her, she was pronounced dead at Kolak Hospital, Odogunyan.
Just 30 minutes after her death, a provisional admission email from JAMB arrived in her Gmail inbox. It confirmed that she had been offered admission into a university programme.
A family member described the timing as “unbearably painful.”
“This is someone who died believing she was a failure,” the source said. “And then she got the admission she had always wanted—just too late.”
Just days before news of Faith’s death spread, JAMB released a public statement admitting to technical failures in the 2025 UTME.
The Board confirmed that a technical glitch had impacted 157 of the 887 exam centres, resulting in widespread low performance for many candidates.Â
