Kano — Nigerian society celebrates resilience - the ability to cope with adversity. But the growing number of people coming through the doors of the Crisis and Trauma Counselling Centre (CTCC) in the northern city of Kano suggests people sometimes need a little help to get by.
The CTCC opened six months ago in a city hit by five bombings in the past two years by the jihadist group Boko Haram. Out of the roughly 320 clients the centre has seen, 70 percent are as a consequence of those attacks, said clinical psychologist Tukur Muhammad Ali.
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