Student who committed suicide didn’t have poor results, says OAU

 

 

  Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile – Ife  has said that Opeyemi Dara, the 400-Level student who committed suicide, was not doing poorly academically.

    In a statement signed by the University Public Relations Officer, Abiodun Olarewaju, on the death, the university noted that Opeyemi’s Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA), which was 2.68, was on the Second Class Lower (2.2) band and could not be said to be poor academically, contrary to claims that she committed suicide because of poor grades. The statement also noted that Opeyemi had no outstanding course to write and was only preparing to submit her final year project as a student of the English Department.

The statement reads: “The authorities of the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile – Ife, will like to commiserate with the parents, guardians, colleagues, friends and well-wishers of late Opeyemi Dara, a part four student of the Department of English, who was said to have committed suicide allegedly because of poor academic performance.  The authorities of the university would, however, like to use this medium to put the records straight.

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