Ayomiposi Ojajuni, a student at the Nigerian Law School, has reportedly taken his own life after allegedly being prevented from taking the Bar Final exams at the Yola campus in Adamawa State.
According to a couple of students knowledgeable about the situation, who requested anonymity due to the sensitive nature of the case, the incident took place on Saturday.
Ojajuni, an alumnus of Olabisi Onabanjo University, reportedly received multiple inquiries from the institution and subsequently found out he was prohibited from taking the professional exams that commenced that same day.
A law school student who talked to our reporter on Sunday mentioned, “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 disclosed that 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 reached 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.”
An online news platform, FactCheckNews, reported on Sunday that Ojajuni took his life after failing to meet the required 75 percent 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 percent mark based on genuine health grounds to regularize 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 regularization.
The State Police Public Relations Officer, Suleiman Nguroje, stated that the occurrence has not been reported yet.
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 also stated that he would revert once he received confirmation but had not yet done so by the time this report was filed.
“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.
