Children with Disabilities

Victoria Edeme The United Nations Children’s Fund has called on governments to consider children with disabilities while making policies. UNICEF made the call on Wednesday in its report titled, ‘Nearly…

As part of activities marking the 2021 Global Sustainability Week, employees of the pan-African of Dangote Group, have donated food items and other hygiene products to the old age and…

Ogun State Government has distributed additional 30 wheelchairs to children and learners with mobility restrictions in order to improve their living conditions. Recall that the government had earlier distributed about…

Lagos State has launched a comprehensive nutrition programmes to tackle cognitive and learning disabilities in newborns. Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Wednesday, rolled out the Mother, Infant and Child (M.I.C.H.) Initiative…

By Emmanuel Ikhenebome/Sinafi Omanga In its bid to boost learning amongst persons living with disabilities in Edo state, the Network for the Advancement of Persons with Visible Disabilities (NAPVID) has…

The Lagos State government has advised parents who have children with disabilities not to keep them at home but to register them in school for knowledge and skills acquisition. The…

The vice presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2019 general election, Mr. Peter Obi, has donated N5million to the Rehabilitation Centre for Disabled, Old and Tramps…

The Government of Nigeria is being urged to ensure that children with disabilities are not left out of upcoming global education commitments and make clear policy commitment for education of…

By Wale Akinselure More than ever before, the need for government, non-governmental organisations and individuals to donate to special schools to keep them running has been advanced. Speech and Language…

By Ijeoma Thomas-Odia With a significant number of the country’s population living with disability and require special support especially young children, stakeholders and parents seek improvement in the learning environment…

By Emma Elekwa, Onitsha It was jubilation galore at the God’s Care School for Persons with Disability, Amaenyi, Awka South Local Government Area of Anambra state following the renovation of…

Children with Disabilities in Nigeria have long suffered inaccessible education and lack of facilities that would have made teaching and learning easier for them in Nigerian schools. Teachers with Disabilities…

The Lagos Civil Society Participation for Development, a network of Civil Society Organisations, has called on the Lagos State Government to create a budget line that would cater for the…