The State of Texas in United States of America has hired its first Deaf female officer in the person of Erica Trevino, who also became the second deaf female…
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Ghana Deaf Association Hosts The World As WFD Board Members Meet For The 114TH Board Meeting
Ghana National Association of the Deaf (GNAD) is hosting the 114th World Federation of the Deaf (WFD) Board Meeting from 6th to 13th May, 2018 in Accra with the…
Parades the city of Akwa The capital city of Awka was bustling last Sunday as delegates of the Deaf Women Association of Nigeria (DWAN) stormed awka from all over…
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NNAD Call on all JAMB/UTME 2018 Deafs to submit their details for Special consideration
The Nigeria National Association of the Deaf (NNAD) through its National Secretary Chidi Olujie have called on all Deaf that took the recent concluded 2018 University Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) organized…
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Shocker In Australia As Ghana’s Deaf Contingent Turn Out To Be Hearings; Caught Singing And Clapping
Ghanaian Deaf soccer team were caught ‘pants down’ singing Jama and clapping to the shock of their host in Australia who were informed the Ghanaian contingent was made up of…
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PHOTOS: Deaf Christian Assembly Lauds Governor Willie Obiano, Ends Easter Retreat
The Deaf Christian Assembly has concluded its Easter retreat to mark the Christians celebration of Jesus Christ’s resurrection as it lauds Governor Willie Obiano efforts on Disability community, INN…
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Gallaudet Targets More Progress For Deaf Community 30 Years After ‘Deaf President Now’ Protest
Students at Gallaudet University, the renowned school for the deaf, seek more progress as it remembers the uprising which brought the campus in the nation’s capital to a standstill 30…
The Lagos State AIDS Control Agency (LSACA) Is organising a Sensitisation/Training for persons with disabilities (PWDs) to enlighten them on basic facts about HIV prevention which also includes prevention…
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Deaf Teacher, Once Named UK’s Best, Jailed After Female Paedophile Hunter Entrap Him By Posing As 13-Year-Old Boy On Grindr
A teacher once named ‘Britain’s sign language tutor of the year’ has been jailed after being snared by a female paedophile hunter. Sick Robert John Lupton-Le Masurier, 41, who is…
A deaf by name, Sangotade Oyekunle Samson, has criticize a discriminatory job advert that was published on social media, which boldly exclude persons with disabilities from applying, INN reports…
The East Akyem Municipal Directorate of Education has organised a career outreach programme in engineering for girls in junior high schools in the municipality at Kibi, INN reports from source…
A deaf man,Yu Zhongliang, 39, who was abducted by human traffickers in 1993 has been reunited with his father and family in China after 25years in captive, INN reports…
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Deaf Community Clamours For Inclusion of Sign Language In School Curriculum
The deaf community in Lagos has called on the government to include sign language in the school curriculum along with other Nigerian languages, INN reports This call was made by…
Authorities of Kibi School for the Deaf say they have received no government financial aid for the past three months, INN reports Assistant Headmistress, Vincentia Asem, laments that the…
This is good news for the Deaf community in South Africa, As South African Sign Language (SASL) has been officially recognised as a home language in the country’s education…