Opeyemi Dara: OAU gives update on student who committed suicide over ‘poor academic performance’

The Management of the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile – Ife, has said Opeyemi Dara, a 400-Level student who committed suicide was doing well academically.

DAILY POST had reported that Opeyemi Dara, who was a final year student of Faculty of Arts, Department of English Language, allegedly committed suicide over poor academic performance.

The public Relations Officer of the university, Abiodun Olarewaju, had said that the university will get to the root of the incident and get back to the public. Olarewaju in a statement released on Monday, said that 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 equally 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.
“Miss Dara is on a Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) of 2.68 which qualified her, at least, to be an average student on a 2-2 grade point.

“It is, therefore, our firm belief that a student who was on Second Class ((Lower Division) cannot be said to be poor academically, talk less of committing suicide because of such.

“In actual fact, Opeyemi DARA did NOT have any outstanding course except her project which she was yet to submit.