Ahead of the 2019 General Elections the Inclusive Friends Association (IFA) has urged the National Assembly to amend Section 56 (2) of the Electoral Act to ensure that off-sight…
Mental Disability News
Police Arrests Mentally-Deranged Man Who Hacked Ogun Pupils To Death In Ogun
The Ogun state police command have arrested the mentally deranged man who stormed Saint John’s Anglican Primary School, Agodo in Ogun Waterside Local Government Area and hacked two pupils…
A man suspected to be mentally challenged, Lekan Adebisi, on Monday allegedly stormed St. John’s Anglican Primary Primary School, Agodo, in Ogun Waterside Local Government Area of Ogun State and…
People With Disabilities Wrongly Denied The Power To Make Decisions, Says UN Expert
People with disabilities are losing control over their everyday lives, and are even risking abuse and neglect, because of laws and practices that strip them of legal capacity, said the…
Disability Community Must Be Given Better Recognition In Hollywood  -Columnists
Nic Novicki and Mark Whitley, the two American columnists, have shared their opinions about Disability community and the need to give them better visibility in Hollywood. They wrote in a…
IFA Tasks Women With Disabilities To Be Proactive On Political And Electoral Matters
As INEC Mainstreams PWDs Into The Electoral Process The Inclusive Friends Association (IFA) have task women with disabilities to be proactive on political and electoral matters. It said this…
House Moves Against Persons With Disablity; Â Passes Bill to Weaken Disability Protections
As Advocates protest the move A bill that threatens to weaken the landmark Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) by making it more difficult to prove the law has been…
How The Disability Rights Bill Got Missing- Bukola Saraki
The Sanate President, Bukola Saraki, on Wednesday met with the members of the Kpakpando Foundation let by its founder and Chairman, Senator Osita Izuaso, as he explains on how the…
PWDs/Special Bills declared Open For Public Hearing.
The Speaker, House of Representatives, Hon. Yabuku Dogara, on Monday 26th February 2018 declared Six (6) Disabilities and Special bills open for deliberation in a just constituted public hearing, INN…
Senate To Pass Found Disability Bill Into Law As Ufom Praises Saraki
The Senate President, Bukola Saraki has assured that the found Disability Bill document, which was hitherto missing, would be passed into law on or before March 2018, INN reports. According…
NASS To Transmit Disability Bill Within 30 Days For Buhari’s Assent — Saraki
The President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, on Wednesday 28 february, in Abuja said that the National Assembly would transmit the Disability Bill to President Muhammadu Buhari within 30 days…
Nasarawa State House of Assembly Passes Disability Bill Into Law
The Nasarawa State House of Assembly, had passed into law a bill for the establishment of the state Disability Right Commission law 2018 in order to protect the rights of…
The Feed-The-Street Group Co-ordinator Recounts Her Experience With Mentally Challenged Woman
The Feed-the-Street group, led by its Co-ordinator, Nancy Ogbue, had on the February 14, Valentine day, last week embarked on a show of love to the needy and poor people…
WEWE/USAID Drills JONAPWD For Better And Effective Performance
In a bid to strengthen the Joint National Association of People With Disabilities (JONAPWD)’s organizational delivery capacities and consequent upon the continued efforts by JONAPWD to be one of the…
People Living with Disabilities Must Be Treated as Equal Members of Society – Abiodun Paseda
He does not live with a physical or mental disability, but Abiodun Enilari Paseda, a Business Administration and Marketing Management graduate of the Ogun State University, Ago Iwoye, and  University…