Our ideal Advocacy & Research Officer is a person with strong advocacy background, sound knowledge of Nigerian laws and previous work experience in policy or legislative advocacy with a particular focus on disability rights. You will need stellar communication skills to interface with legislators and other stakeholders and will need to know the inner workings of law-making in Nigeria. A strong human rights activist, our ideal candidate must be passionate about mental health with a background in upholding Nigeria’s international human rights commitments.

Findings by the FCT Police confirm that Faiz Muhammad has never earned a qualification as a “clinical psychologist”, “psychologist” or “therapist” as he had been claiming to the public since 2017, his victims and during the initial stages of the police investigation. Other victims reported sexual impropriety by Faiz Muhammad during therapeutic relationships amongst other allegations undergoing further investigations.

Recall that since the push by various stakeholders in the early 2000s to pass a mental health law, the year 2020 witnessed the first time people with psychosocial disabilities were included in the process.

As She Writes Woman, we advise all our stakeholders to refrain from conducting any dealings with Faiz Muhammad who is no longer a staff of the organisation.

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People are now increasingly showing signs of anxiety and depression even if prior to now they didn’t have those experiences and that is because we are in an unusual situation.

When my condition is not seen as something that is wrong with me but as a set of qualities that my environment is yet to adapt to, people with mental health conditions are no longer seen as a problem that needs to be fixed, cured and solved.

In January 2021, the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES) interviewed Hauwa to learn more about the work that She Writes Woman does to empower Nigerians with psychosocial disabilities and mental health conditions to participate in political life.

"We need more unashamed conversations. We need to undress mental health and begin to ensure that we're allowing people to lean into that conversation," she adds.

To celebrate her win, Stylist spoke with Ojeifo to discuss her work with She Writes Woman, and find out more about the problems faced by people with mental health conditions in Nigeria, and what change she’d like to see over the next couple of years.

In a statement released Tuesday, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation said it recognized the activist for her work in promoting Gender Equality, the fifth global goal for sustainable development prescribed by the United Nations.

Officials tackling the coronavirus pandemic in Nigeria have recognized the impact of COVID-19 on citizens’ mental health.

Hauwa Ojeifo, a mental health and disability advocate, and founder of She Writes Woman (SWW), has lamented the complicity of the United Nation member states and society in how they treat people with disabilities, especially when it comes to giving them full and equal recognition before the law.

Nigerian Mental Health Activist and inaugural Marca Bistro Fellow, Hauwa Ojeifo, is set to give the opening address at the 14th United Nations Conference of State Parties to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

In this interview with Konye Chelsea Nwabogor, she speaks on why she’s dedicated her life to helping others, what she wants women to know about mental health, and how you can help fight the stigma around mental health issues.