Twist of fate: How UTME candidate died just moment admission offer came

A teenager, Opesusi Faith Timilehin has reportedly lost her life battle after consuming rodent poison for scoring low in the just-released 2025 Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) result.

Timilehin death occurred barely 30 minutes before her family received her administration notification letter after she was confirmed dead at Kolak Hospital in Odogunyan, Lagos.

The victim, had applied for Microbiology, also sat for the same examination last year, but she was denied admission, according to a family source who spoke with Guardian Newspaper Correspondent.

“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.

The source said Timilehin, who hailed from Abeokuta, but lived at Odogunyan in Ikorodu, Lagos State, with her elder sibling, however offered a provisional “admission message via her Gmail immediately after she was confirmed dead at Kolak Hospital, Odogunyan, Ikorodu, Lagos the following day”

The report also revealed that her 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.

The 19-year-old elder sister, who initially didn’t know the cause, ignored her, only to later raise the alarm that attracted sympathisers to the scene.

A witness said Timilehin later confessed on the way to the hospital to having taken poison at home before coming to her sister’s office.

“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.