Professor Abdalla Adamu, the Vice-Chancellor, National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) has attributed high-level depression to addiction to social media platforms.

Adamu expressed this view in remark at the celebration of the World Health Organisation (WHO) Day 2017 on Friday in Abuja.

The theme of event organised by NOUN’s Faculty of Health Sciences in collaboration with the Nigerian Psychological Association is ‘’let’s talk Depression.’’

According to the vice-chancellor, lack of money is a major cause of low-level depression as such depression is cured once poor people get some money.

“I am not a psychiatrist neither I am a psychologist but I know that money can cure depression at the lower level; when people do not have money, they are depressed.

“At the higher level, they have all the money but they do not communicate.

“Go to a rich home and you will see that they are not talking to one another; everybody is on Snap chat, Whatsapp, Instagram, Facebook among others.

“Experts should develop a way of teaching people how to effectively use the social media to avoid alienation and its attendant depression,’’ he said.