‘Suicide is No Solution’ – a group of volunteers engaged in multiple anti-suicide initiatives, has condemned the rising waves of online suicide related contents by Nigerians, reports thegazellenews.com
Thegazellenews.com reports further that the group has a key task of achieving a significant reduction in the rate of deaths by suicide in Nigeria through strong public enlightenment and advocacy campaigns that dissuade citizens from taking their own lives
The group in a statement by its Coordinator, Toye Arogun, stated that it has noticed with dismay the alarming rate of suicide themed skits by Nigerian content creators without due regard and sensitivity to suicide contemplators and persons with suicide ideation.
It also expressed strong disapproval with the indiscriminate association of some brands with death by suicide.
Arulogun in the statement released on Monday, 2 March, 2026, stated that suicide is a serious issue, not a joke that should be the theme of explicit suicide promoting online videos.
According to Arulogun, “We have noticed in the last couple of weeks an upswing of reckless and insensitive online content by Nigerian content creators promoting deaths by suicide. Most of the conte
‘The Suicide Is No Solution Initiative’ focuses on three main areas: Suicide Prevention, Responsible Suicide Reporting and Attempted Suicide is Not A Crime” through collaborations with the media on suicide reporting and influencing the law on attempted suicide.
nt also mention and display some brands as suicide tools or agents thereby pointing anyone with suicide ideation or contemplation to what to use; bringing the name, image and reputation of such brands into disrepute.
“With over 95,000 deaths by suicide globally in less than two months alone into this year, Nigeria’s staggering statistics of a death by suicide every 33 seconds and an estimated 15, 000 to 16,000 deaths annually, the issue needs no trivialisation and deserves to be treated with utmost seriousness. What our content creators should be doing is to come up with skits dissuading Nigerians from killing themselves no matter the situation rather than the current wave of self harm promotion”.
Arulogun admonished Nigerian content creators to desist from this needless act urging affected brand owners to embark on enlightenment campaigns and legal action against recalcitrant culprits. He also called on media practitioners, marketing communications professionals and regulators, mental health practitioners as well as other stakeholders to rise against this wave of unwholesome content.
