Lillian Okenwa

Lawyer, Arbitrator, Author, Journalist, Documentary film maker...

[Lillian Okenwa @OkenwaLillian]

*Echoes of Trauma: The grief of losing someone who is still alive*
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You can sit beside someone, hold their hand, hear their voice and still find yourself missing the person they used to be.

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Echoes of Trauma: When apologies become another form of abuse
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Sometimes, the words “I'm sorry” are not the beginning of change; they are simply the pause before the hurt begins again.

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Echoes of Trauma: When your love is edited out of the story
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You can spend years showing up for someone and still hear them tell the world you were never there. #EchoesOfTrauma #EmotionalHealth #Relationships #FamilyDynamics #MentalWellbeing #Boundaries

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Which President Does That? Trump’s crude Nicki Minaj remark exposes the White House’s changing standards
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A president’s words carry the weight of his office. When Donald Trump publicly assessed a female music star’s body before a cheering political crowd...

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Saka’s greatest victory may be the lives he is changing beyond football
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For a child in Kano, Saka’s success helped make an operation possible. For a 14-year-old boy in Rwanda, it helped restore his sight and revive his dream of becoming a teacher.

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Echoes of Trauma: The child who never caused trouble
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What if the child everyone praised for being good had simply learnt that their own troubles were best kept to themselves?
#EchoesOfTrauma #ChildhoodEmotionalNeglect #ChildMentalHealth #Parenting

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Echoes of Trauma: When children become their parents’ protectors
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No child should have to risk injury to protect a parent, hide affection to avoid upsetting another or spend childhood feeling responsible for the peace of the household.

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Echoes of Trauma: When children become their parents’ protectors
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No child should have to risk injury to protect a parent, hide affection to avoid upsetting another or spend childhood feeling responsible for the peace of the household.

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Good night, Jeffrey Archer — thank you for the journeys, By Lillian Okenwa
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am grateful to him for the thrill of turning a page and wondering what waited on the other side. But I am even more grateful for something he gave me without ever knowing it...

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Echoes of Trauma: When the future is interrupted

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Their parents had watched them come this far. They had paid school fees, worried over examinations, prayed through difficult seasons and celebrated graduation.

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World Teachers’ Day: Remembering Obi of FATKAT, By Lillian Okenwa
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Some teachers are remembered for their kindness. Others leave such a mark on your life that, years later, you still find yourself thinking about something they taught you.

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Echoes of Trauma: When you no longer know what you want
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One of the strangest things that can happen to a person is to become so good at living the life expected of them that, when someone finally asks what they want, they have no answer.

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Ndifon’s long fall: One conviction survives appeal, another returns to court
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It began with a student protest at the University of Calabar, moved through university proceedings, criminal prosecution, conviction, imprisonment and appellate review.

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35 years after it began with a handful of women lawyers, FIDA Abuja honours the giants who paved the way
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The women who now lead FIDA Abuja have inherited considerably more than an organisation's name. They have inherited the work, expectations and...

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Echoes of Trauma: When you no longer know what you feel
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There are seasons when life asks so much of us that there is little time left to notice what it is taking in return.

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Echoes of Trauma: When there is no room for a bad month
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What happens when there is not enough money for the bills you already have, let alone the things you never saw coming?

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Pastor Bimbo Odukoya: The woman whose voice did not die with her
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Twenty-one years after a plane crash took her life, the memory of the woman who taught a generation how to love, live and find their way home remains remarkably alive

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Before you enlarge, lift or tuck it, By Funke Egbemod

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When vanity books an appointment with the surgeon, Death sometimes gets invited too.

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Echoes of Trauma: The people you can never please

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Listen when correction is warranted. Change when change is necessary. But don't keep dismantling yourself to win the approval of someone who has already decided you will never be enough.

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*THE IGWE FILE (Part IV): The investigation that never reached the end*
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More than two decades later, the case remains one of the most unsettling reminders of how a determined investigation can still fail to produce legal closure.