depression

Community public physicians, Bakare Ismail Afolabi, have expressed concern over rising cases of depression prevalent amongst rural women. Delivering a health talk to mark 2019 Press Week of the Kwara state council of the Nigeria Union of…

SOME- mental health advocates have called for massive awareness programmes on depression and suicide to reduce incidents in the country. The advocates who spoke in separate interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Saturday in…

A Consultant Psychiatrist, Dr Oluwatoyin Fasesan, has urged parents to be more dedicated to the welfare and wellbeing of their children and wards to avoid depression, especially in teenagers. Fasesan, who works with the Babcock University…

GOV. Abdullahi Sule of Nasarawa State on Friday says the state government is ready to partner with Nigeria Medical Association (NMA) to curtail depression in the state. Sule said this in Keffi Local Government Area of the state during the…

As part of measures to stem the tide of the increasing rate of suicide among youths, experts have urged students suffering from depression to speak out and seek solutions to their problems. The experts gave the advice at a sensitisation…

Led by Editorial CDS president, Daniel Abel, the awareness walk took place around the NYSC state secretariat, Agodi, Ibadan, Oyo state.

DR Eno Kufre, a Psychiatrist with a Private Psychiatrist centre in Gwagwalada on Monday said that depression was the major cause of premature death. Kufre said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja to…

THOUGH it barely makes news headlines as most Nigerians are more seriously concerned with the question of survival, the stark reality before us is that mental disorder is as serious and prevalent as a number of other physical maladies. In…

A mental health expert, Professor Oye Gureje has raised the alarm on cases of depression around pregnancy, a silent contributor to maternal mortality in Nigeria, that affects between eight and 10 per cent of women. Professor Gureje, the…

OJO is a brilliant 200 level undergraduate student who is however very shy and withdrawn and is frequently miserable. Tunde, his roommate, finds it very difficult to understand Ojo, as he always seems to have negative emotions all the…