90m Nigerians suffer mental disorders— FG ON NOVEMBER 13, 20185:09 AMIN NEWS By Luminous Jannamike
ABUJA—The Federal Government said, yesterday, that an estimated 90 million Nigerians were believed to be suffering from mental disorders.
Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Health, Abdulaziz Abdullahi, stated this at the ongoing mental health action committee and stakeholders workshop in Abuja.
Abdullahi, who attributed the country’s high burden of mental disorders to inadequate attention to mental illnesses, misconceptions and lack of awareness on the part of the public, said more people would be disabled by psychological challenges than complications arising from HIV/AIDS, heart disease, accidents and wars combined by the year 2020.
He identified ways of addressing the country’s mental health burden to include fast-tracking the enactment of the Mental Health Act as well as the resuscitation of the national mental health action committee for the coordination of stakeholders’ activities on mental health and psycho-social supports in the country.
He said: “In Nigeria, an estimated 80 to 90 percent of our populations are believed to suffer from mental disorders. This is a very significant number considering Nigeria has an estimated population of over 200 million.”
Also speaking, Director of Public Health in the ministry, Dr. Evelyn Ngige, described Nigeria’s statistics on mental health disorders as damning, considering the current economic hardships in the country.
In his remarks, Dr. Rex Mpaazange, WHO Lead on Communicable and Non-Communicable Diseases Intervention, lamented Nigeria’s high burden of such cases, noting that “people with severe mental disorders— moderate to severe depression, bipolar disorder and schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders— generally have a life expectancy 10 to 20 years shorter than the general population.”
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Those officials don't need to argue with the naked ,all they need to do is to impound his car and clothes.let's see how he will get home naked. Rubbish mentality
That was how a man did such in First Bank Ilesha Osun State because he been forced to leave the Bank Premises.
Dirty man naked himself and one secondary girl beside me was covering her eyes, pretending to see the joystick as disgusting but she was all there winking her eyes to see the man's nudity, same with women inside the keke na pep, they were all concerned about his nudity not what caused the nudity nor how to give remedy.
Be wise always.
Person we DE hungry get shame?. One reality is stronger than the other.
Many of una don't really know HUnger realities. Una grow up with "mama thank you" before Una get Una own
hotmediatv: A taxi driver whose vehicle was impounded by security officials in Abuja, stripped naked to express his grieviances with the act.
The taxi driver who disclosed that he is from Edo State, said hunger pushed him out of his home in spite of the lockdown order issued by President Buhari.
The man disclosed that he's got mouths to feed, and further stated that "hunger virus" is much more deadlier than "Coronavirus".
On why he stripped naked, he said he wants everyone to know that "all is not well with him and his family. "
That was how a man did such in First Bank Ilesha Osun State because he been forced to leave the Bank Premises.
Dirty man naked himself and one secondary girl beside me was covering her eyes, pretending to see the joystick as disgusting but she was all there winking her eyes to see the man's nudity, same with women inside the keke na pep, they were all concerned about his nudity not what caused the nudity nor how to give remedy.
Be wise always.
You seem not to understand what an average Nigerian pass through everyday.
there's nothing like lock down in Nigeria, we are only observing lock up, there's still movement around, though the cost of travelling inter state has gone up...i dont blame the man sha, na hunger
OdefaGirl: Seriously..... can someone tell me the implications of his action, any benefit from stripping?.... will he be pardoned?
It is not easy my dear, some people have different ways of expressing their frustration. There is hunger in the land. I pray he does not commit suicide
90m Nigerians suffer mental disorders— FG ON NOVEMBER 13, 20185:09 AMIN NEWS By Luminous Jannamike
ABUJA—The Federal Government said, yesterday, that an estimated 90 million Nigerians were believed to be suffering from mental disorders.
Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Health, Abdulaziz Abdullahi, stated this at the ongoing mental health action committee and stakeholders workshop in Abuja.
Abdullahi, who attributed the country’s high burden of mental disorders to inadequate attention to mental illnesses, misconceptions and lack of awareness on the part of the public, said more people would be disabled by psychological challenges than complications arising from HIV/AIDS, heart disease, accidents and wars combined by the year 2020.
He identified ways of addressing the country’s mental health burden to include fast-tracking the enactment of the Mental Health Act as well as the resuscitation of the national mental health action committee for the coordination of stakeholders’ activities on mental health and psycho-social supports in the country.
He said: “In Nigeria, an estimated 80 to 90 percent of our populations are believed to suffer from mental disorders. This is a very significant number considering Nigeria has an estimated population of over 200 million.”
Also speaking, Director of Public Health in the ministry, Dr. Evelyn Ngige, described Nigeria’s statistics on mental health disorders as damning, considering the current economic hardships in the country.
In his remarks, Dr. Rex Mpaazange, WHO Lead on Communicable and Non-Communicable Diseases Intervention, lamented Nigeria’s high burden of such cases, noting that “people with severe mental disorders— moderate to severe depression, bipolar disorder and schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders— generally have a life expectancy 10 to 20 years shorter than the general population.”
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FG and their idiotic estimations that they call statistic, they're so dumb, only good at looting funds.
Will you blame d man, as if Bn a taxi driver earning peanuts is not hard enough, talk less of d kind hunger that will be striking him @ds time..
This Govt is just so insensitive to its people's need
Abeg itaya jare
hotmediatv: A taxi driver whose vehicle was impounded by security officials in Abuja, stripped naked to express his grieviances with the act.
The taxi driver who disclosed that he is from Edo State, said hunger pushed him out of his home in spite of the lockdown order issued by President Buhari.
The man disclosed that he's got mouths to feed, and further stated that "hunger virus" is much more deadlier than "Coronavirus".
On why he stripped naked, he said he wants everyone to know that "all is not well with him and his family. "
90m Nigerians suffer mental disorders— FG ON NOVEMBER 13, 20185:09 AMIN NEWS By Luminous Jannamike
ABUJA—The Federal Government said, yesterday, that an estimated 90 million Nigerians were believed to be suffering from mental disorders.
Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Health, Abdulaziz Abdullahi, stated this at the ongoing mental health action committee and stakeholders workshop in Abuja.
Abdullahi, who attributed the country’s high burden of mental disorders to inadequate attention to mental illnesses, misconceptions and lack of awareness on the part of the public, said more people would be disabled by psychological challenges than complications arising from HIV/AIDS, heart disease, accidents and wars combined by the year 2020.
He identified ways of addressing the country’s mental health burden to include fast-tracking the enactment of the Mental Health Act as well as the resuscitation of the national mental health action committee for the coordination of stakeholders’ activities on mental health and psycho-social supports in the country.
He said: “In Nigeria, an estimated 80 to 90 percent of our populations are believed to suffer from mental disorders. This is a very significant number considering Nigeria has an estimated population of over 200 million.”
Also speaking, Director of Public Health in the ministry, Dr. Evelyn Ngige, described Nigeria’s statistics on mental health disorders as damning, considering the current economic hardships in the country.
In his remarks, Dr. Rex Mpaazange, WHO Lead on Communicable and Non-Communicable Diseases Intervention, lamented Nigeria’s high burden of such cases, noting that “people with severe mental disorders— moderate to severe depression, bipolar disorder and schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders— generally have a life expectancy 10 to 20 years shorter than the general population.”
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Your father and all your generation is also among the 90% with mental disorder...
Pushed to the wall. An hungry man is an angry man. An angry man is an unreasonable man. Nothing spoils. He really needs help, that is what matters to him now.
Aladdin1: Na so dem dey naked for Edo.After dem deliberately flout the law.when Police or EDSTMA wan arrest dem.dem go strip naked like craze man.dey para and demor up and down, with dehm small prick wey be like walnut.
I be confirm Edo boy ,,na craze full our head,,we Know day shame put to naked ,Watin day day hide again for this hunger virus period
That was how a man did such in First Bank Ilesha Osun State because he been forced to leave the Bank Premises.
Dirty man naked himself and one secondary girl beside me was covering her eyes, pretending to see the joystick as disgusting but she was all there winking her eyes to see the man's nudity, same with women inside the keke na pep, they were all concerned about his nudity not what caused the nudity nor how to give remedy.
na pass I dey pass ooo. 
