


Is suicide becoming new normal in Nigeria?

Suicide
Suicide needn’t be an option

Pedestrian bridges and suicidal Lagosians

Decriminalising suicide attempts

Bauchi teenager cautioned over truancy commits suicide

Community service for attempted suicide still punishment — Dr Ogbolu

SUICIDE: Unknown man found dangling from mango tree in Festac

Controversy over schoolteacher, son’s death: Suicide or murder?


Keke rider’s wife poisons self, one-yr-old baby in Lagos

What you should know about depression, suicide (2)

Prison officer commits suicide over inability to pay house rent

NEMA reunites man who climbed 200-foot mast with family

NEMA, LASEMA rescue man from jumping off 200ft mast in Lagos

Man, 38 years old commits suicide in Ibadan

Police foil attempt by LSDPC official to commit suicide

Auchi Poly freshman commits suicide

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Man hammers wife to death over N800,000 in Bayelsa; commits suicide
TRAGEDY struck in the early hours Thursday at Edepie, a suburb of Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital, when a 46-year-old man, identified as Patrick Markson, reportedly killed his wife and then took his own life.

Nigeria’s suicide rate under-reported, says Dr. Tade
The Deputy Director, Medical Social Services, Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, LASUTH, and training coordinator, Suicide Research Prevention Initiative, SUPRIN, Dr. Titilayo Tade, has said suicide rate in Nigeria in 2019 is 6.9/ 100,000, which is higher than 6.5 rate in 2012; but under-reported or miscoded.

Man commits suicide after sleeping with minor in Delta
By Festus Ahon – Asaba A man identified as Henry Jegbe, has reportedly committed suicide after sleeping with a minor in Agbor, Ika South Local Government Area of Delta State. Jegbe who is popularly addressed as “Pastor”, allegdly hung himself after he was accused of having canal knowledge of the minor who is his neighbour’s daughter. The randy usher […]

Police arrest woman over attempted suicide in Jigawa
The police command in Jigawa, has arrested a 20-year-old woman, Dausiya Isyaku, for allegedly attempting to commit suicide. The state Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), ASP Lawan Shiisu, disclosed this, while speaking with newsmen in Dutse on Thursday. Shiisu said Isyaku, a resident of Roni in Roni Local Government Area (LGA) of the state, committed […]

OAU student’s suicide not linked to academic failure ― PRO
The Public Relations Officer (PRO) of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Mr. Abiodun Olarewaju, has said that the suicide committed recently by a student of the university was not as a result of academic failure. Olarewaju, who stated this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), on Wednesday, in Ile-Ife, added that […]

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