Speaker Obasa said this in a message to mark the World Suicide Prevention Day, held globally on September 10.
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Dr Ninyo Omidiji, a Psychiatrist and Clinician, Benue State University Teaching Hospital, Makurdi, has raised concern over the growing rate of suicide among young Nigerians.
The World Health Organisation says no fewer than 800,000 people commit suicide annually, the second leading cause of death among people between the ages of 15 and 29, in 2016.
Dr Eno Kufre, a Psychiatrist with a Private Psychiatrist centre in Gwagwalada on Monday, said that depression was the major cause of premature death.