I was with a colleague of mine, while surfing the internet on a group assignment to be enthusiastically done with our heads up about Nigeria ranks in the world Happiness Reports. She ranked 78th in the world and 2nd in Africa. Sadly today, Nigeria has dropped to 103rd and 6th position in the 2017 world Happiness report.
The above drastic drop is connected with recent rise in the incidence of suicide in the country. It is however disheartening and alarming the vivid evidence that juvenile ones are the most involved in this worrying trend.
Ironically, Nigerians who were once ranked as one of the happiest nation on earth and indeed Africa have now being in the limelight or rather backward in Happiness Rank and soldering with suicide as an alternative antidote against frustrations.
Reports have it that Nigeria has recorded bothersome suicide cases of; an agile 500 level of the department of Urban and Regional Planing of Ladoke Akintola University of Technology(LAUTECH), a promising Babcock University student, a fresh student of the University of Benin, medical student of Obafemi Awolowo University(OAU), Ile Ife, aside - a promising Medical Doctor that jumped and ended it all in the Lagos lagoon and recent, a 9 year lover boy of Hospitality Management, Lagos State Polytechnic that died of a sniper poison, all because of " being killed by his estranged NYSC lover to another man".
Indeed several causative agents have been attributed to the growing suicide trend in the country. These Includes; frustration of academic output on the part of students by their lecturers, high rate of unemployment in our society, low economic power, lost for lonesomeness, poor economy of the country, lack of closeness to God, escalating high cost of living, just to mentioned but a few. It is therefore, not unusual that the foregoing factors among others you can name are resulting into depression for our compatriots who are increasingly being overwhelmed by the negative impacts of the causative agents.
Indeed, some ladies of nowadays preferred to go for a ready made husband and without doubt, times are hard, educational system might not be encouraging to sum up on suicide. Also, reports from several Neuro-psychiatric hospitals across the country reveal the increase incidence of mental illness, coupled in depression disorders are on the rise. Therefore it is imperative that frontally, we address the factors that are making our compatriots to pine into despair. Also, our government must rise and call it a day by fixing our economy through palliatives to the pervaded economic challenges and bring about a serious stop to hopelessness and helplessness of our compatriots.
To our families, friends and relatives, through the foregoing, we must show love and concern to ourselves, seek medical help for the concerned, review outrightly our efforts, responses and approach to our people in, sad condition, lonesomeness, sickness and primely desperate situations. and give the needed necessary support to the people in this regard.
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