{"id":6354,"date":"2025-08-15T03:22:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T03:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/?p=6354"},"modified":"2025-08-15T03:22:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T03:22:12","slug":"200-level-oau-student-commits-sucide-after-falling-exams-train-your-ward-to-understand-temporary-set-backs-vc-urges-parents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/2025\/08\/15\/200-level-oau-student-commits-sucide-after-falling-exams-train-your-ward-to-understand-temporary-set-backs-vc-urges-parents\/","title":{"rendered":"200 level OAU student commits sucide after falling exams   \u2026train your ward to understand temporary set backs &#8211; VC urges parents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Our Correspondent <\/p>\n<p>A 200 level students of the Faculty of Dentistry, at the Obafemi Awolowo University OAU, Ajibola Ibitayo on Wednesday commit sucide after failing his examination for the second time.<\/p>\n<p>Daily Echoes Media gathered that the student whose father is a medical doctor reportedly injected himself at his parent resident in Ejigbo.<\/p>\n<p>A statement by the Public Relations Officer of the institution  on Thursday, the Vice-Chancellor of the University, Professor Simeon Bamire, confirming the ugly incident urged parent to instil in their wards the understanding that temporary setbacks in the pursuit of success are part of life and not the end of it.<\/p>\n<p>He however, expressed his condolences to the parent and family of the diseased, stressing the entire university has been thrown in mourning following the demise of Ibitayo.<\/p>\n<p>The statementreads in part, \u201cAjibola Ibitayo (Matriculation Number: DEN\/2021\/023), committed suicide after learning that the results of the last semester examinations, released yesterday, would require him to repeat Part Two for another academic year. He had already been repeating Part Two during the last session.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe student, whose father is a medical doctor, reportedly injected himself at his parents&#8217; home in Ejigbo, Osun State.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDisturbed and saddened, the Vice-Chancellor of the University, Professor Adebayo Simeon Bamire, appealed to parents and guardians to instil in their children and wards the understanding that temporary setbacks in the pursuit of success are part of life and not the end of it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cProfessor Bamire also urged students and young people to view failure as an opportunity to redirect their paths toward success and greater achievements.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Vice-Chancellor prayed that God Almighty would grant the parents, family, Faculty, College of Health Sciences, and the University community the fortitude to bear the irreparable loss.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Our Correspondent A 200 level students of the Faculty of Dentistry, at the Obafemi Awolowo University OAU, Ajibola Ibitayo on Wednesday commit sucide after failing his examination for the second time. Daily Echoes Media gathered that the student whose father is a medical doctor reportedly injected himself at his parent resident in Ejigbo. A [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3722,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2639,2692,3570,1678,2670,4055,4054],"class_list":["post-6354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-news","tag-fortitude","tag-injected","tag-irreparable","tag-opportunity","tag-reportedly","tag-setbacks-in-the-pursuit","tag-temporary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6354"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6355,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6354\/revisions\/6355"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}