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Psychiatrists have called on professionals in mental health to collaborate with non-professional organisations to educate and create more awareness about mental issues in the society. The psychiatrists made the appeal at a seminar organised by two NGOs, the Nous Foundation Nigeria and Sparkle Foundation Nigeria, on Saturday in Lagos. A Consultant Psychiatrist, Dr Otefe Edebi, said that psychiatrists played a huge role in informing and educating the public about mental health. According to him, it is not enough for psychiatrists to sit in the office and treat patients but need to communicate with people in the community. “The role of the psychiatrist primarily is to provide care to the person with a mental health challenge and substance abuse challenge which now has expanded to emotional issues. “The psychiatrist is a medical doctor who is skilled both to provide medication and also therapy. “However, today, the role of a psychiatrist in a changing world where the ide...

An intelligentsia group, comprising over 200 professors and operating under the name, Anambra Consultative Forum, University of Nigeria Nsukka, UNN, has thrown its weight in support of the presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, and his running mate, Mr. Peter Obi. Mr Peter Obi and PDP Presidential candidate, Atiku A press statement by Prof. E.O.Ezeani, Prof. F.O. Orabueze  and Prof. P.U. Okpoko, President, Secretary   and Co-convener respectively, said  Obi’s vice presidential candidacy  was the best for the country at a time like this. Nigerians scramble for Ghanaian “Garri” at Lagos Trade Fair They said that, having dissected the problems of the country, they found the choice of Obi as apposite. While granting dissenting voices the right to their opinions, they said in other climes, people like Obi would have been begged by search parties to come out and salvage the country. Justifying their positi...

Bill Gates The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is canceling most of its $5 million pledge to the MiSk Foundation, a Saudi charity headed by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. The “c urrent situation”  played a part in the Gates Foundation’s decision, a spokesperson told The Wall Street Journal, referring to the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. “Jamal Khashoggi’s abduction and murder is extremely troubling. We are observing current events with concern,”  the foundation said in a statement. Khashoggi, a Saudi national and columnist for The Washington Post, was killed on Oct. 2 inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. After weeks of denying involvement, the Kingdom admitted he had been killed at the consulate and that it was premeditated. The cutting of aid by Gates Foundation came amidst reports that Crown Prince Salman had disparaged Khashoggi as a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, in talks with US officials, after the journalist’s murder. Salman ...

Emergency personnel stationed outside the HotYoga Studio after a gunman opened fire inside on November 2, ,2018 in Tallahassee, Florida. The gunman also died from what appears a self inflicted gunshot wound according to police. Seven people have been admitted to the hospital. Mark Wallheiser/Getty Images/AFP A gunman killed two people and wounded five others at a yoga studio in Florida’s state capital Tallahassee before taking his own life, police said Saturday. At approximately 5:47 pm on Friday, 40-year-old Scott Beierle “entered the business posing as a customer and began shooting patrons with a handgun without warning,” the Tallahassee Police Department said in a statement. “Patrons fought the assailant to prevent him from harming themselves and others. The assailant then turned the gun on himself and died on scene from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.” It said two women, Nancy Van Vessem and Maura Binkley, aged 61 and 21 respectively, were killed. Two other women were in “s...

By Ofokansi Nonso It was jubilation galore as the custodian of the chieftaincy stool of Ikot Etefia Ukam   in Mkpat Enin Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State reaffirmed their chieftains in the presence of the Clan Head of IkpaIbom, Etebom Moses Udo Ukpong, and other Paramount Chiefs of IkpaIbom Clan. They include Eteidung Abong Friday William Inoh, Ikot Ukwa. Eteidung Abong Raymond Udia, Ikot Ekong. Eteidung Abong Sylvester Inyang, Ikot Ojoro. Eteidung Abong Nse Ukpe,Ikot ObioAkai. The Eteidung Abong Okon Udo Ekpo, NdonIbotio. Eteidung Abong Akpan Sunday, Ikot Aba. Eteidung Abong Jeremiah Ekpo, Ikot Okop Odong. Eteidung Abong Akpan Jackson Ekpo, Ibiote and Eteidung Abong Marcus Akpakpan, Ikot InyangOkop. Others present are Eteidung Abong Udo Sunday Akiko, Ikot ObioEkpong. Eteidung Abong Edo Williams, Ikot Edim. Eteidung Abong Ufot Dick Ama, Ikot Akpaden. Eteidung Abong Ufot Akpan Umoetok, Ikot Eti. Eteidung Abong Friday Button, Ikot AkpaEkop. Eteidung Abong Friday ...

Chief Sylvester Debe Ojukwu, the first son of the Biafran warlord, late Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu, has reportedly passed on, aged 62.   Debe Ojukwu Chief Debe Sylvester Ojukwu, first son of late Dim Chukwuemeka Odumekwu Ojukwu, Biafran War lord is dead, according to an authoritative report by  Vanguard . A family source, who confirmed the news, said he slumped and died at a private hospital in Lagos. The source who pleaded anonymity said that they are yet to issue a statement on it. Meanwhile, speaking to  PUNCH  Newspaper, Bianca Ojukwu, the widow of Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, said she cannot confirm the death of her late husband’s son, Debe Ojukwu. When contacted on the telephone, Ambassador Ojukwu told a correspondent that it was not her duty to make announcements in the Ojukwu family. When pressured further that as a stepmother of Debe, she ought to be one of the first persons to know about such things, she said Nnewi people had...