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The Humans Of Yaba Left (III)
1. One of the two very old men the Federal Neuropsychiatric Hospital Yaba's male drug wards told us how he once shared a room at Tolani Asuni with a former Minister of the Federal Republic. This happened many, many years ago.
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1. One of the two very old men the Federal Neuropsychiatric Hospital Yaba's male drug wards told us how he once shared a room at Tolani Asuni with a former Minister of the Federal Republic. This happened many, many years ago.
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2. This sexagenarian — let’s call him Baba — it was his first admission for rehabilitation and there was this affluent, fairly young Nigerian who was on admission as well.
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3. They gisted — this expression is now grammatically permissible, according to Oxford English Dictionary — dined and even slept together. They exchanged contacts, too.
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The Humans Of Yaba Left (II)
1. Not all drug abusers got into it willfully. A lot of people don’t seem to know, but this is the truth.
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1. Not all drug abusers got into it willfully. A lot of people don’t seem to know, but this is the truth.
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2. While at the Federal Neuropsychiatric Hospital Yaba (Yaba Left), I listened to the story of a young man from the East who was driven to drugs by a string of events triggered by a bike accident.
The accident severely damaged one of his legs.
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The accident severely damaged one of his legs.
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3. Till date, he walks with a heavy limp even though the crash is several years old already.
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1. When I arrived at the drug ward of the psychiatric hospital Yaba that Monday evening, I wasn’t quite sure what to expect. These were people known to the outside world as ‘drug addicts’ — people who were experiencing or had recently experienced psychosis.
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2. To the outside world, they were ‘mad men’. Would they be violent at times? Would there be cliques?
Roughly an hour after I got in, it was time for dinner, served every 6pm. I got mine but I didn’t have water.
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Roughly an hour after I got in, it was time for dinner, served every 6pm. I got mine but I didn’t have water.
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3. I couldn’t buy, too, because it wasn’t the time and day for buying things. As a rule, patients emptied ALL their belongings, including cash, at the point of entry, save their singlet and boxer briefs. #TheHumansOfYabaLeft
