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Speaker of Lagos State House of Assembly, Mudashiru Obasa, has lamented the alarming rate of suicide, which was hitherto alien to Nigerians.

The speaker also said it was saddening to note that people took their lives over flimsy reasons, which could be resolved with the determination to succeed. The World Suicide Prevention Day was marked in Awka, Anambra State, with a group of placard-wielding young people marching through major streets to create awareness of the event.

 

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