Social Anomie and Suicide Phenomenon in Nigeria: Lending Credence to the Voiceless Phenomenon

Abstract

Suicide is one of the socially undesirable phenomena across the globe As such the United Nations via the World Health Organization has recognized suicide as one of the health issues requiring serious attention globally and domestically Although there are statistical evidences about the understanding of the phenomenon and its prevalence world over especially among the developed nations much is left to be desired for among the developing nations in the understanding of the social antecedence of suicide and the sustainable mechanism to the phenomenon Since the fundamental theoretical concept by Emile Durkheim which has triggered unprecedented research on suicide classification and identification of the social phenomenon responsible for suicide thought and action is yet to be given a crystal distillation among the developing nations such as Nigeria There are social indices facilitating suicide thought and actions which are domicile with these nations according to Durkheim s classifications