According to The PUNCH, it has been revealed that as many as 79 persons committed suicide in Nigeria in the year 2022.
Findings reviewed by The PUNCH showed that the 79 persons comprised 70 males and 9 females within the period.
The figure does not include the number of cases of suicide that have not been reported in the media.
The breakdown showed that Lagos ranked highest with 12 suicide cases; followed by Oyo; 10; Kano, four; Anambra three; Edo, three; Delta, three; Ogun, three; and Rivers, three.
Borno, Bayelsa, Abia, Benue, FCT, Imo, Enugu, Niger, Jos, Jigawa, Kaduna and Kwara had two cases each.
Others such as Ondo, Osun, Kebbi, Nasarawa, Gombe, Cross-River, Kogi, Adamawa, Ekiti, Bauchi, and Yobe, had one case each.
Our correspondent gathered that three suicide cases took place in the United Kingdom and the United States.
It was reported that on May 19, a former Battalion Commanding Officer who led the fight against Boko Haram in the North East, Major U.J Undianyede, was said to have committed suicide.
It was learnt that he killed himself less than 72 hours before the verdict of a court-martial trying him for alleged military infractions during the war.
On May 27, a 45-year-old Lagos accountant, Folake Abiola, committed suicide at her residence at Osapa London, in the Lekki area of Lagos State.
She allegedly drank what was suspected to be insecticide and died shortly after, as her family members, friends and men of the Nigeria Police Force met her lying motionless.
