Photos: OAU 100-level student commits suicide over ‘poor grade’

A 16-year old 100-level student of Microbiology at
the Obafemi Awolowo University, OAU, Ile-Ife,
Mercy Afolaranmi, has killed herself.

Miss Afolaranmi took ‘Sniper’ days after she wrote
on Facebook that she wanted to see God’s face
and speak with him face to face.

Obafemi Awolowo University’s Chief Security
Officer, 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,” he told Premium Times.

Her fellow students and a neighbour also revealed
that Mercy killed herself due to poor grade.

A neighbour, Bimpe Oni, said the student, who
lived off-campus at Sabo area of Ile-Ife, died on
Thursday, after she took “rat poison mixed with
battery extract.”

Oni said the late student committed suicide
because of “emotional pressure.”
Aisha, Miss Afolaranmi’s colleague in the Faculty
of Science, said the deceased had ‘E’ in CHM101
(Chemistry for first year students), a reportedly
dreaded course for year one students in the
science and technology related faculties.

She disclosed, “Mercy often isolated herself in
class and looked depressed. She told me she had
‘E’ in CHM101 and has been going around
unhappy before this incident.”