WATCH THE VIDEO HERE The grieving father of Teenage UTME (Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination) candidate has revealed how he buried his daughter, Timilehin, using money he had set aside for her university education after she d+ed by ending it all over her UTME result. In an emotional interview with Channels Television, the father explained that Timilehin, who had scored 190 in the previous year’s UTME, was devastated when she saw this year’s result was 146. “She said, ‘Daddy, this is not my result! Go and do something!’” he recalled. “I told her to calm down, but she was panicking.” What followed was a tragic series of events. The father said he kept video-calling after hearing she was unwell, but her siblings avoided his calls. “When I finally saw her on the phone’s screen, I knew. She was on the hospital bed, struggling with death. I knew then that she would not survive.” Her elder sister, Opeyemi, had tried to get help when Timilehin confessed to ingesting “Push Out” — a common term for rat poison — thinking it was medication. By the time they realised what had happened, it was too late. “She regretted it. I could see it. She was fighting for her life,” the father said through tears. Timilehin, the fourth of eight children, was described as brilliant, hardworking, and gentle. While awaiting university admission, she learned hairdressing and styled hair for several professors at LASUSTECH. She had dreamed of studying Biochemistry. “Never did I imagine this,” her father said. “I told her not to worry, that I had kept her school fees intact. Now I’ve used the school fees to bury her.” Timilehin’s death has sparked fresh concern over exam body result controversies and the mental health crisis among Nigerian youths.
“I Used Her University School Fees To Bury Her” — Father Of Teenage UTME Candidate Who Committed Suicide
