{"id":210341,"date":"2025-10-19T00:41:50","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T22:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-its-time-nigeria-treats-mental-health-with-empathy-not-punishment-vanguard-editor\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T00:41:50","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T22:41:50","slug":"nigeria-its-time-nigeria-treats-mental-health-with-empathy-not-punishment-vanguard-editor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-its-time-nigeria-treats-mental-health-with-empathy-not-punishment-vanguard-editor\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: It&#8217;s Time Nigeria Treats Mental Health With Empathy, Not Punishment &#8211; Vanguard Editor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">Editor of Vanguard Newspaper, Eze Anaba, has urged Nigerians to show greater empathy and support toward people battling mental health challenges, stressing that mental well-being must be treated as a national priority and not a luxury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">Speaking at the third edition of the Vanguard Mental Health Summit held in Lagos, Anaba said the event had grown into one of Nigeria&#8217;s most respected platforms for advocacy and dialogue on mental health since its inception in 2021.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">He noted that the summit, themed&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510170268.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Editor of Vanguard Newspaper, Eze Anaba, has urged Nigerians to show greater empathy and support toward people battling mental health challenges, stressing that mental well-being must be treated as a national priority and not a luxury. Speaking at the third edition of the Vanguard Mental Health Summit held in Lagos, Anaba said the event had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":210342,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,10561,31305,5731,8854,257,4687,393,7184,254,6599,25141,17513],"class_list":["post-210341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-editor","tag-empathy","tag-health","tag-mental","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-punishment","tag-south-africa-today","tag-time","tag-treats","tag-vanguard"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}