President Bola Tinubu, on Friday in Abuja, declared his unwavering support for a partnership between the Federal Ministry of Health’s National Eye Health Programme and the Peek Vision Foundation to…
Dr Joshua Ibenu, a Public Health Expert, has advocated for the domestication of the Eye Health Policy to improve eye health care and reduce the number of persons with visual…
A public health expert and Programme Officer with Sightsavers Nigeria, Dr Joshua Ibenu said 1.1 million Nigerians are blind but there are not enough ophthalmologists to take care of eye…
Muslim Association of Visually Impaired of Nigeria (MAVIN) gives kudos to members of House of Representatives for voting to urge President Bola Tinubu to allocate 10 per cent of offices…
The Joint National Association of Persons With Disabilities (JONAPWD), has decried the deplorable state of the Special School For Handicapped Children, Creek Road, Port Harcourt. JONAPWD called on Governor Siminalayi…
Aseptuagenarian Kareem Aderemi on Monday shot himself dead with a locally-made barrel. Aderemi had been battling Parkinson’s disease and partial blindness for months before he committed suicide. Spokesperson of Nigerian…
Africa’s Global Bank, United Bank for Africa (UBA), has launched the UBA Braille Account Opening Form, a first of its kind initiative in the Nigerian and African market, designed specifically…
The newly elected National President of the Nigeria Association of the Blind (NAB), Stanley Onyebuchi, has visited the blind mechanic in Abuja. INN, on June 17, reported and shared a…
A man who was surprised that a blind man was working on his car as a mechanic made a short video of him. The blind man said he had been…
By Oni Femi (INN), Ekiti As a way of finding out the true state of welfare of students with disabilities in Ekiti, His Excellency Governor Biodun Abayomi Oyebanji had on…
Members of the visually impaired community have recorded a breakthrough with the new invention of ‘Smart Sticks’ by some students of Regina Pacis Secondary School, Onitsha in Anambra State.…
Ekiti State Governor, Mr. Biodun Oyebanji has promised to attend to the various issues affecting the students of the Government Special School for the Blind, Ikere-Ekiti. Governor Oyebanji spoke while…
Former Minister of Youth and Sport, Prof. Taoheed Adedoja has on Sunday commended the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, (JAMB) registrar Prof. Isahk Oloyede for providing opportunity for the visually…
The visually-impaired should be able to learn in school, Director-General of the Nigerian Copyright Commission (NCC), Dr. John Asein, has said. According to him, it is lamentable that less than…
The Bible Society of Nigeria (BSN) donated 137 complete sets of Braille Bible to people with visual disabilities worth ₦6.9 million. The value of the Bibles donated to the sighted…
