Lifestyle Blogs by Lolo Mma

On the 15th of June of every year is the World Elder Abuse Awareness Day. It is a day set aside to draw attention to issues around ageing and elder abuse, which occurs globally. Do you know that elders receive all forms of abuse such as sexual abuse, physical abuse, psychological abuse, financial abuse etc, especially in the hands of their family members and people they know? Dewdrop Foundation (where I work as the Assistant Programme Coordinator) and CGE Africa, are working in several communities in Enugu State,

So earlier in May, I was a guest on Armed Forces Radio. Via telecall (from my home), that is. We spoke about Nigerians preparing for the future, post #Covid19 pandemic, govt implementing Oransaye which calls for reforming the Ministries and Agencies of govt, and how an individual should brace up. Thanks Chinyereugo Ugwuegbu for having Me. The highlights of my response were that; 1. We need to start investing more in

Elders during a hangout before the Covid19 pandemic (Dewdrop Project) Published by the International Centre for Investigative Reporting  (ICIR) on 22 May 2020 and Dewdrop Foundation . “I thought it was a curse from God to destroy everybody” – says one of the elderly rights holders of the project on curtailing elder abuse in 11 communities in Enugu State, being implemented by Dewdrop Foundation and Centre for Gender Economics Africa. Considering the importance of mental health to the wellbeing of older persons, prior to the nationwide lockdown occasioned by the COVID 19 pandemic, we were engaging not less than 900

Published on March 18, 2020By ADEROGBA GEORGE (News Agency of Nigeria) Association of Nigeria Authors (ANA), FCT chapter has called on women to adopt the concept of “motherism’’ rather than feminism, which is   foreign and alien to the African culture. Mrs Halima Usman, Chairman of the association made this known on Wednesday at a programme organised to celebrate women in literature and national development. The association particularly used the programme to celebrate one of the foremost Nigeria authors, Prof. Catherine Acholonu who died in March 18, 2014 , and had many literary works, particularly her