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It is no news that suicide has been on the rise presently in Nigeria. People are becoming aware of the dilemma, though that hasn't reduced the occurrence of suicide. This is because it goes just beyond advising people not to say certain things to others or act in certain ways to people around them. Just yesterday, a steward of a state governor in Nigeria hung himself behind the state house. Although it was reported that he was withdrawn and didn't speak to anyone that day at work and after a while he was out of sight. This shows that no matter the socio-economic status of a person, suicide cuts across as even lecturers, bankers, etc have been known to commit suicide. I will be proving these in my next research work. So where did it all begin?   I usually say that suicide doesn't just happen but is the end of a chain of events. If this events are well managed or addressed then the final act of suicide would be reduced. Suicide begins with the thought of it. And that...

Suicide rates will keep multipling in Nigeria. Not because times are hard. Times were HARDER even during the Biafran war. The problem now is that adults are increasingly immature and insensitive. The society generally is increasingly frivolous. People have no true friends. Because friends see themselves more as rivals. Nigerians now shamefully worship money. Our race is now measured by wealth and gross accumulation of wealth and nothing else. Set backs are mourned as a wasted life by those who should give love and genuine support. So a troubled man becomes the butt of jokes by those in whom he has reposited his trust in. Calamities befall men and their friends and family members shed tears in the morning and run them down at night. Adults now behave like children. Some men can't even tell their wives because he is sure she won't understand. He has seen her divulge little details to her family members. He has heard her eulogise wealth and curse set backs as abomination....