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Mrs Patience Umo Eno, wife of Akwa Ibom State Governor, Pastor Umo Eno, is dead. The state Commissioner for Information, Ini Ememobong, announced the First Lady’s death in a press statement issued in the early hours of Friday. According to the commissioner, the First Lady died at a hospital on September 26, 2024, surrounded by
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President Bola Tinubu has arrived at the National Cemetery, Abuja for the interment of the late Chief of Army Staff, Lt-Gen. Taoreed Lagbaja. Tinubu took his seat at the venue at 3:10 pm for the funeral rites which began at about 3:15 pm. Vice President Kashim Shettima is also present. The rites started with the
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President Bola Tinubu has arrived at the National Cemetery, Abuja for the interment of the late Chief of Army Staff, Lt-Gen. Taoreed Lagbaja. Tinubu took his seat at the venue at 3:10 pm for the funeral rites which began at about 3:15 pm. Vice President Kashim Shettima is also present. The rites started with the
Out of the 80 per cent of the inmates admitted at the Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital Calabar, more than half are women. Dr Theo Osim Onyuku, a senior consultant at the hospital disclosed this at the University of Calabar yesterday when he gave a talk to a large number of Nigerian youths during a skills acquisition and
Women admitted for psychiatric ailments increasing in Calabar hospital – Dr Onyuku
Out of the 80 per cent of the inmates admitted at the Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital Calabar, more than half are women.
Dr Theo Osim Onyuku, a senior consultant at the hospital disclosed this at the University of Calabar yesterday when he gave a talk to a large number of Nigerian youths during a skills acquisition and empowerment programme.
He said increasing numbers of young women are brought to the facility in questionable mental states, needing care and treatments frequently.
He noted that there is an increasing addiction to hard drugs and other substances by University students and other young people, including women, not only in Cross River State.
“Most Nigerian youths are using psychoactive substances, which control their minds. And the intakes of these innumerable drugs and substances are very injurious to their health, which is the reason they suffer a lot of mental illnesses.
“These drugs and certain leaves are powerful and do negatively affect the brains of these young ones who see it as status symbols.
“If they cannot afford alcohol in bigger bottles, they also indulge in sipping it in sachets which is another dangerous substance. These alcoholic sachet drinks are widely available and cheaper. These, too, are capable of attacking their brains.
“This is why many have alcohol-dependent problems across the country.
“80 percent of inmates at our facility now are youths, half of them female.”
Onyuku said many Nigerian youths, especially those in the varsities are lured into doing drugs, cultism and drinking as a result of peer pressures, and the urge to ‘feel belonged’.
He advised varsity students to concentrate on their studies and acquire skills in addition to formal education instead of clubbing about and doing drugs.
He emphasized that there was really no durable cure for mental illnesses except to refrain.
“The cure for drugs is ‘Do Not Start’”, Onyuku said.
Women admitted for psychiatric ailments increasing in Calabar hospital – Dr Onyuku
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