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• About 75% of those who need mental healthcare lack access• Nigeria has only 300 psychiatrists to treat over 200m people• Africa has one psychiatrist for every 500,000 inhabitants, 100 times less than the WHO recommendation• Stigmatisation major challenge to accessing healthcare says Adesokun• Jehovah’s Witness marks global mental health day• WHO rolls out measures to reverse suicide, the mental health …

PDP presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar got his campaign officially underway in Uyo on Monday, October 11, 2022. PDP presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar got his campaign officially underway in Uyo on Monday, October 11, 2022. PDP presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar got his campaign officially underway in Uyo on Monday, October 11, 2022. PDP presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar got his campaign officially …

The UN General Assembly has announced that it would meet on Monday, October 10, 2022, hours after Russia launched a deadly barrage of missile strikes at cities across Ukraine, as Western powers condemned Moscow’s latest attacks and sought to underscore its isolation.The United Nations called the urgent meeting to discuss Russia’s declared annexation of four partly occupied Ukrainian regions, but …

…Develop action plans to mitigate challenges The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) has raised concern over the devastating effects of floods and insecurity on their projects across the states. IFAD Country Director, Ms Ekoue Dede, who stated this at the end of 5th mission program of the Value Chain Development Program (VCDP) lamented that the flood has  not only …

Emmanuel Osodeke, president of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, says the union is optimistic about an end to its strike soon. He said this on Monday at a meeting with the leadership of the house of representatives. Also present at the meeting was Femi Gbajabiamila, speaker of the house of representatives. “Please, let all of us work together to …

A notorious bandit leader in Kaduna State, Ali Dogo, and 30 of his foot soldiers have been neutralised by Nigerian troops in an airstrike over the weekend. An impeccable military source confirmed to our correspondent that Dogo, also known as Yellow, and his gang members, were neutralised by airstrikes undertaken by the Air Component of Operation WHIRL Punch. While confirming …

The Pan Yoruba Socio-Political Group, Afenifere, has replied the chairman of the South West Governors Forum, Rotimi Akeredolu, saying that he does not speak for Yoruba. Recall that Akeredolu, had hit at the group for endorsing Obi, saying that the Afenifere doesn’t speak for the Yoruba people on the endorsement of the Labour Party Presidential candidate, Peter Obi and that …

The presidential flagbearer of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, on Monday, spited the main opposition, Peoples Democratic Party, describing it as a “political party of termites.” “Sixteen years of nothingness. Never again shall they come back. A new hope is here,” Tinubu said during the inauguration of the Tinubu-Shettima Women Presidential Campaign Team at the State House Banquet Hall, …

… Tinubu will restructure Nigeria, make state Police happen … will ensure true federalism thrives … Nigerians should vote for experience, capacity not religion, ethnicity … insists Presidency should rotate to South not North again Chairman of the South West Governors Forum, Rotimi Akeredolu, has declared that the endorsement of the Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, by the pan-Yoruba …

Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila has hinted that the long-running strike embarked upon by members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU will be over “in matter of days.” The Speaker stated this while briefing the leadership of ASUU about his meetings with the President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday.  Meanwhile, the leadership of ASUU has hailed …