If information obtained by the Premium Times on the state of mental health in Nigeria is anything to go by, then the country is facing a global human rights emergency in mental health.

The online tabloid of September 11, 2022, quoted the President of the Association of Psychiatrists in Nigeria (APN), Taiwo Obindo, to have stated that, more than 60 million Nigerians suffer from mental illnesses.¹

He further stressed that, mental healthcare in the country is in a sorry state as out of 60 million Nigerians suffering from various mental illnesses only about 10 percent of them were able to access appropriate care; leaving a majority in the treatment gap for mental illnesses.