Hajia Amina was excited to be pregnant, within a year of marriage. She read many articlesaround health and safety during pregnancy and she marked every milestone with pride. Sheduly registered for antenatal services after making enquiries for the best facility where herpregnancy could be supervised, and she could be rest... read more →
Mar
07
Feb
29
The Jemila Abubakar Memorial Essay (JAME) competition is an essay competition centered on a topical mental health issue, organized annually by the Asido Foundation for undergraduate students of Nigerian tertiary institutions in memory of Miss Jemila Abubakar, the organization's pioneer program manager, who passed away in July 2020 after a... read more →
Feb
22
Tade is a young Nigerian graduate who was posted to a state in a different region of the country for his National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) program. He was excited about traveling and exploring the new environment and culture for the 12 months duration of the NYSC. He was assigned to a secondary school as his... read more →
Feb
15
Two scenarios happened recently that clearly illustrate the costly nature of ignorance around mental illness in our society. CASE A: In 2020, a young female student and poet took her own life. According to her friends who wrote tributes about her, and her own Facebook posts, she apparently had a chaotic childhood, was sponsoring... read more →
Feb
01
There is a disturbing viral video of a former award-winning national lawn-tennis champion, Tanya Okpala, a bi-racial Nigerian lady (Ukrainian Mother), with a diagnosis of bipolar disorder and borderline personality disorder. Tanya was seen wandering the streets of Awka, Anambra State. In the video, she narrates her sad experience of being laughed at, called many names such as prostitute, drug user and... read more →
Jan
25
Bolanle is a 32-year-old lawyer whose husband, Akin, was first diagnosed as having bipolar disorder when they were still undergraduates. They had been dating for the past 3 years and he had become her rock and pillar. They were simply inseparable. It had started with his becoming reclusive, not picking up her calls and... read more →
Jan
18
Scenario 1:Mr Abolarinwa lost his house in the Ibadan explosion. Having worked hard over the years until his retirement to save and build his own home, he was very proud of the humble apartment that was his own home. The children were now out of the home, and it was just him... read more →
Jan
11
Scenario AA young lady, Bose, was having a really rough day at work. It had been a long and frustratingday – one of those days when you simply can’t seem to get anything right, and everyone getson your nerves and you feel like screaming. But you are forced to endure... read more →
Jan
04
Umar has been working in a tertiary hospital since he finished his secondary school education as a ward assistant. He is very brilliant but was orphaned at the age of 10 years when his parents were involved in a fatal road traffic accident. He and his younger brother were brought... read more →
Dec
28
Halima completed her university education this year but narrowly missed mobilization for the national youth service corps (NYSC) program, due to late collation and submission of names from her university. Thus, she has to wait till the new year, hopefully in the first quarter, for eventual mobilization. She has been... read more →