Law student kills self in Adamawa

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A Nigerian Law School student, Ayomiposi Ojajuni, has reportedly died by suicide after he was allegedly barred from writing the Bar Final examinations at the Yola campus in Adamawa State.

PUNCH Metro learnt from at least two students privy to the matter but who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the case that the incident occurred on Saturday.

Ojajuni, a graduate of Olabisi Onabanjo University, was said to have been issued a series of queries by the school authorities and later discovered he would not be allowed to sit for the professional exams, which began the same day.

One of the law school students who spoke to our correspondent on Sunday said, “He was issued queries in the past.

“Although we did not know the content of the query, he later found out that he would not be allowed to participate in the exams. He became distressed the moment he found out, and this was what led to his demise.”

Another student of the school said Ojajuni died after drinking a poisonous substance.

“He consumed a harmful substance on Saturday and passed away on Sunday after he was taken to the Modibbo Adama University Teaching Hospital, Yola,” he said.

When contacted on Sunday, the spokesperson for the Adamawa State Police Command, Yahaya Suleiman, said, “I am not permitted to comment on an official examination exercise. I am in Abuja. I just read it in the news as you read it.”

Meanwhile, an online news platform, FactCheckNews, reported on Sunday that Ojajuni took his life after failing to meet the required 75 per cent attendance for qualification.

“Sources at the campus told our reporter that before, names of those who qualified for the exams were usually pasted two weeks before the exams, a situation that allows students who could not make the 75 per cent mark based on genuine health grounds to regularise their situation.

“But lately, the school adopted a fresh criterion of placing the names at the eleventh hour for the examinations, leaving no room for such regularisation.

“On seeing that he did not qualify for the examinations, the student reportedly consumed a substance believed to be a rat poison, resulting in serious illness and death,” the platform reported.

When contacted, the State Police Public Relations Officer, Suleiman Nguroje, said the incident had not yet been reported.

He said, “We don’t have such a report yet. I have called the DPO in the area, and he said he did not have the report. I have also tried calling the law school, but I have not been able to reach them.”

He added that he would revert once he received confirmation, but had not yet done so by the time this report was filed.

PUNCH Metro reported in 2024 that a 24-year-old mass communication student of Federal Polytechnic, Mubi, in the state, Jemima Shetima-Balami, also allegedly died by suicide after her boyfriend ended their relationship.

Dayo, a Sociology graduate, covers City and Crime on the Metro Desk. He is a resourceful, self-motivated and result-driven journalist.

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