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It is important to know what alcohol intake and drug abuse mean. Thus, drug abuse according to the Farlex Partner Medical Dictionary is the “habitual use of drugs not needed for therapeutic purposes, solely to alter one’s mood, affect, or state of consciousness, or to affect the body function unnecessarily”. Drugabuse is a great problem faced in our society today despite the known risks associated with it. Some of these risks could be death, addiction, mental disorder, and other drug related health conditions. In 2013, The World Health Organization (WHO) stated that about 320,000 young people between the ages of 15-29 die annually from alcohol and other related drugs, resulting in about 9% of death cases. This same report has also shown that at least 15.3 million persons have drug related disorders. According to the Nigerian statistics, the Northwest has about 37.47 percent of the drug abuse victims in the country; the southwest on the other hand is rated second with a 17.

Article on The Natifz Times newspaper Vol.1 No.1 at pg.12 THE THEATRE: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW By Dingse Bitrus Nandom nandomdingse@gmail.com Many people are ignorant of what a theatre is and the role it plays in the society. Theatre manifests in the daily lives of humans without them even noticing. Theatre is far above what people think of it. People only perceive it as an art in which people (artists) gather to perform. When we look closely, we all are actors in one way or the other. A clear example of that is lying, dancing, etc. “All the world’s a stage” is a phrase that begins a monologue from William Shakespeare’s “As You Like It”, spoken by Melancholy Jaques. Since the world is a stage, then everyone in it is an actor, and since actors act, and acting is part of theatre, then everyone is engaged or involved in the “theatre” in one way or the other. Hence, I feel that everyone should know the basis of theatre as a profession and a way of life. Theatre is a collaborative form o