Volume: 01 / Issue: 01 / 2021 - Open Access - Website: www.mijrd.com - ISSN: 2583-0406 Multidisciplinary International Journal of Research and Development 19 All rights are reserved by www.mijrd.com Age and Gender Influence on Suicidal Ideation Among Undergraduates in Ilorin Metropolis, Kwara State, Nigeria Dr. Adekola Kamil Lasisi Department of Educational Management and Counselling, Al-Hikmah University, Ilorin, Kwara State, Nigeria Email: kamadelas@gmail.com Abstract— This study investigated age and gender influence on suicidal ideation among undergraduates in Ilorin Metropolis. Descriptive research design was used for this study. The participants of this study consisted of 250 randomly selected undergraduates from five faculties of Al-Hikmah University, Ilorin Nigeria. Suicidal Ideation Scale used by Roberts and Chen (1995) was adopted to collect the data. Two null hypotheses were tested at 0.05 critical region. The finding indicated that there were significant gender and age difference in the suicidal ideation of undergraduates in Ilorin Metropolis. The findings were discussed and necessary recommendations based on the findings of the study were highlighted. This includes the fact that intervention programme for managing self-destructive ideation among undergraduates should take into cognizance the influence of age and gender. Keywords— educational management, gender influence, undergraduates, ideation. INTRODUCTION Suicide is in the top twenty leading causes of demise internationally and the subsequent driving reason for death among youngsters matured 15 to 29 years. of age (World Health Organization, 2014). Globally, a large percentage of suicide is linked to low and middle-income countries where stigma around suicide is high and mental health promotion services, and treatment options are poorly organised and inadequate (Lancet, 2017). Within the last decade, cases of suicide attempts and suicide among young people including those in the university system have been reported in Nigeria (Aloba, Adefemi, & Aloba, 2018; Aloba, Ojeleye, & Aloba, 2017), elsewhere (January, Madhombiro, Chipamaunga, Ray, Chingono & Abas 2018; Patton, Sawyer, Santelli, Ross, Afifi, Allen, Bonell, 2016). More suicidal thoughts are ongoing, given the social pressures confronting emerging adults within and outside the university system. The menace of suicidal ideation is far from being over as report of this act has not seized from occurrence. In Nigeria recently, it has been observed that suicide is the leading cause of death for youth ages 10-24 (Berthane, Canavan, Darling, Sudfeld, Vual, Adanu, Barnighausen, Dessie, Bukenya, Guwatudde, Killewo, Sando, Sie, Oduola, & Fawzi, 2020). Based on the foregoing, this study intended to extend the frontier of knowledge on suicidal ideation by investigating the age and gender influence on suicidal ideation of undergraduates in Ilorin Metropolis.