Yola law student commits suicide over exams

Monday, December 8, 2025 - Adamawa State Police Command has thrown further light on the reported suicide at the Yola Campus of the Nigeria Law School.

The Command said on Sunday night that it had commenced an investigation into the saga of a student, Olajuni Ayomiposi, allegedly committing suicide after he was stopped from writing his final examination.

“The Adamawa State Police Command confirms the report of an unfortunate incident involving a 27-year-old student of the Nigerian Law School, Yola Campus, identified as Ojajuni Ayo, an indigene of Ondo State,” the command said in its statement signed by police image maker Sulaiman Nguroje.

Nguroje stated, “On the 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.”

The police added that Ayomiposi’s 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,” Nguroje stated further.

Initial accounts had it that Ayomiposi had on Saturday, December 6, taken a harmful substance after he was denied entrance for his bar examination that began that day.

It was said that he had taken ill after swallowing the substance said to be rat poison, was taken to the nearby Modibbo Adama University Teaching Hospital, and had died by the morning of Sunday, December 7.

One of the accounts had alleged that Ayomiposi was barred from his examination because he did not answer queries directed to him by the school authority.

It was further alleged that he did not have required 75 percent attendance and could therefore not have qualified to sit for the examination.