The President, Network For Disabled Women, NDW, Lois Auta-Udonkanta has urged the United Nations Women to set aside a day as International Day for Women and Girls with Disabilities. Auta…
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APC nomination form An appeal has gone to the All Progressive Congress to make the nomination form free for persons living with disabilities in the country wishing to contest the…
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ZLP offers free nomination forms for women, youth and PWDs, resumes sales for others
The Zenith Labour Party (ZLP) has offered free nomination forms for women, youth and persons with disabilities as it resumed sales for all the national and state elective positions. Delta…
Angry para-athletes in Owerri protesting their non-inclusion to the 1st National Para Sports game scheduled for Abuja almost set the Dan Anyiam Stadium on fire after they were left out…
APC Zonal Persons with Disabilities Leader, Northeast, Comr. Mohammed Abba Isa has felicitated with the newly appointed Action Progressive Congress, (APC) National Disabled Leader, Honourable Tolu Bankole on his new…
•As advocacy group lauds him on job creation, welfare of PWDs By Igbonaka Chukwu Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State has given executive backing for the domestication of the Nigerian…
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Telling stories of rejection, stigmatization, hostility, PWDs demand adequate treatment
To achieve an increased strategic awareness of the barriers experienced by female SGBV survivors living with disabilities, the Women’s Rights and Health Project, WRAHP recently organized a panel session among…
ActionAid Nigeria has empowered no fewer than 30,000 women, children, farmers and Persons Living With Disabilities through its Local Rights Programme (LRP) in Kogi State. At the Kogi LRP and…
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2023: ADC offers 35% allocation to youths, women, PWDs, sponsors 300 Nigerian youths
The African Democratic Congress, ADC, on Tuesday, said it has given 35% allocation to youths, women and persons with disabilities for party, elective and appointive positions in the 2023 general…
The House of Representatives on Tuesday moved to investigate the causes of deaths and permanent disability resulting from negligence of medical practitioners in Nigeria. This followed the adoption of a…
Youths, with the growing trend of societal ills, particularly in grassroots communities, have been contributing their quota to the development of the country. They have adopted the ideology of giving…
The federal government and all stakeholders in the education sector have been urged to show more committment to the education of Persons With Disabilities (PWD’s) by ensuring that they acquire…
Women with disabilities in Edo State have raised concern that men are not willing to marry them because of their conditions. The women, under the women’s wing of the Joint…
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2023: We have 214 positions for persons with disabilities in Abia, says ADC Chairman
The Chairman, African Democratic Congress (ADC), in Abia, Don Norman says the party has allotted 214 positions to persons with disabilities (PWD), for the 2023 elections in the state. Obinna…
NOA, Dr. Garba Abari The National Orientation Agency (NOA) has urged students of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) School for the Deaf, Kuje Area Council, not to use illicit drugs…