At some point in the middle of the night, Olusegun Adeleke was walking down the stairs toward his bedroom, trying to force himself to sleep after hours of restlessness, when a thought arrived that didn’t feel like his own. It was the seed of PAAQ, which stands for Please Ask Any Question, a platform connecting knowledge seekers with verified experts …
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Precious had a clear plan: become like Ben Carson, the American neurosurgeon. She applied to study medicine at the University of Lagos, Obafemi Awolowo University, and the University of Ibadan. None of them took her. OAU offered her zoology instead. She negotiated her way into a physiotherapy programme and found she actually enjoyed it. Then COVID-19 hit, and everything stopped. …
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Thani Oluwaseun knows what it feels like to be depressed and not know where to find help. “I’ve been depressed myself in the past and knowing how difficult it can be,” Thani reflects. “I was able to pick myself up, but not everybody can. That’s why some people go into substance abuse.” His experience with depression left him with a …
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