{"id":66318,"date":"2025-05-22T12:27:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T12:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=66318"},"modified":"2025-05-22T12:27:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T12:27:09","slug":"small-doctor-cries-out-over-drug-abuse-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/05\/22\/small-doctor-cries-out-over-drug-abuse-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Small Doctor Cries Out Over Drug Abuse Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Anifowoshe Oladipupo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nigerian street pop star Adekunle Temitope, better known as Small Doctor, has expressed heartbreak over the surge in drug abuse among Nigerian youth.<\/p>\n<p>In a post shared on May 21 via his X account, the singer recounted a distressing experience during a visit to Agege, the neighbourhood where he grew up. He said what he saw shook him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo b una celebrity they mentor them? No be waiting most of you Dey use do lifestyle now b dat? They practice what they saw and hear from your music,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>He described seeing young men, some of whom he once knew, slumped and dazed under the influence of drugs &#8211; some even asleep while standing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFix up the entertainment industry. Let the clean up begin from you guys. No offence bro, but leaders set the tone. If we\u2019re speaking against drug abuse, the example we show matters.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s hard to push the message when your content sometimes promotes smoking or drinking. You\u2019re influential let\u2019s not just talk change,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>His call has stirred conversation across social media as fans and fellow artists reflect on the powerful influence of entertainment on youth behaviour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Anifowoshe Oladipupo Nigerian street pop star Adekunle Temitope, better known as Small Doctor, has expressed heartbreak over the surge in drug abuse among Nigerian youth. In a post shared on May 21 via his X account, the singer recounted a distressing experience during a visit to Agege, the neighbourhood where he grew up. He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":66319,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[179],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-66318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66318"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66320,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66318\/revisions\/66320"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}