Mr Opesusi Oluwafemi, father of the 19 years old Faith Opesusi Timileyin who committed suicide for scoring low marks in the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, says his daughter died after taking rat poison.
News360 Info reports that Faith, who intended to study Microbiology in the university, took her own life after seeing her UTME results.
Opesusi told BBC Pidgin on Thursday that the daughter was devastated after discovering that she scored just 146.
“My daughter scored very high in last year’s JAMB result. This year, they gave her 146 and that was what made her drink rat poison.
“She was devastated and disappointed when she saw her results,” he said.
According to him, the daughter did not open up. “If she had opened up, we would have consoled and told her that there is hope.”
It was recalled that the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, Registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede on Wednesday admitted that there were errors in the just concluded 2025 UTME.
Oloyede, who broke down in tears while addressing journalists on Wednesday, apologized to affected candidates.
The errors, according to Oloyede, affected at least 379,997 candidates.
