A 27-year-old student of the Nigerian Law School, Yola Campus, identified as Ojajuni Ayo, an indigene of Ondo State, has allegedly committed suicide.
According to sources, the deceased took his life after he discovered he was ineligible to sit for the Bar Final examinations.
The list of eligible candidates was released approximately two weeks before the examinations, allowing students with legitimate health-related absences to regularize their records.
Sources within the campus added that Ojajuni did not meet the mandatory 75 percent attendance requirement, one of the key criteria for writing the final exams.
According to those familiar with the situation, said Ojajuni became distressed upon learning his name was not on the eligibility list.
He was later found in critical condition after reportedly ingesting a harmful substance.
Campus officials and fellow students made efforts to save his life, rushing him to the Modibbo Adama University Teaching Hospital Yola, where he was confirmed dead.
Meanwhile, Adamawa State Police Command Public Relations Officer, SP Suleiman Yahaya Nguroje, who confirmed the unfortunate incident in a statement, said the Police have already commenced investigation into the matter.
The statement reads in part: “On 07/12/2025, the Command received a report from the Chief Security Officer of the institution that on 06/12/2025 at about 11:30 am, a student named Ojajuni Ayomiposi returned to the campus in a tricycle, visibly staggering, and jumped over the fence into the hostel premises. Shortly after, a security guard went to check on him and found him vomiting and lying unconscious.
“He was immediately rushed to the nearby Hospital where he was admitted and later confirmed dead while receiving treatment”.
Nguroje said the corpse has been deposited at the hospital mortuary for autopsy, while investigation is ongoing.
The Commissioner of Police, CP Dankombo Morris, has ordered a discreet and thorough investigation into the incident to uncover the circumstances surrounding the student’s death.
Veteran journalist and recipient of A.B.C Yola, Reporter of the Year Award (1997), Hassan Umar Shallpella, works with WAP as a Regional Correspondence. He was trained at Institute of Mass Communication and Technology Jos and Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, Training School Lagos.He was a News desk Editor and a Correspondent at the Punch newspaper and till 2019, was the Deputy Editor ofThe Scope newspaper.
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