A Professor of Behavioural Medicine at the Lagos State University College of Medicine (LASUCOM), Ikeja, Ayodele Coker, has identified emotional abuse from spouses, poverty, alcohol and substance abuse, as well as mounting social and financial pressures, as major contributors to the growing burden of mental disorders among Nigerian men. The professor of psychiatry explained that many men also increase their vulnerability to mental health conditions by suppressing their emotions instead of discussing the challenges they face at work, at home, and in society. He urged men to openly express their...