SHOCKING! OAU Student Commits Suicide Over Poor Result

Miss Afolaranmi who lived off-campus at Sabo area of Ile-Ife, died after she took “rat poison mixed with battery extract”
A 16-year old 100-level student of Microbiology at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Mercy Afolaranmi, has committed suicide by poisoning herself.

Students and a neighbour close to the deceased say she may have killed herself due to poor grades.

Miss Afolaranmi who lived off-campus at Sabo area of Ile-Ife, died after she took “rat poison mixed with battery extract”, according to a neighbour, Bimpe Oni.

The chief security officer of the university, Babatunde Oyatokun, said: “We got a call that one of our students took poison. We got to hospital to realise that she mixed rat poison.

“She gave us the contact of her parents but before they arrived, she already gave up due to the effect of the poison she took.”