Nigeria And Increasing Rate Of Suicide

By Temilade Aruya

Recent incidence of suicide in the country is, no doubt, alarming and disturbing. Most shocking is the fact that younger ones are not even excluded from this worrying trend. It is ironic that Nigerians that were once famously labeled ‘happy go lucky people’ now find suicide attractive.

Nigeria always ranks well in the World Happiness Reports. It ranked 78th in the world and 2nd in Africa on the World Happiness Report for the Year 2016. Curiously, the country dropped to 103rd and 6th position in the 2017 World Happiness report.

In the first quarter of 2017, Nigeria recorded bothersome suicide cases; one of which involved a 500 level, Urban and Regional Planning undergraduate of the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Oshogbo, Osun State, and a Babcock University, Ilisan-Remo, Ogun State, student among…