Vice President Yemi Osinbajo By Stephen Angbulu The Karmajiji Colony of People with Disabilities, Federal Capital Territory, has declared support for Vice President Yemi Osinbajo ahead of the 2023 presidential…
BOLD Hearts Network, in partnership with Center for Women, Faith & Leadership (CWFL) recently held a workshop on Sexual And Gender Based Violence for Women with Disabilities in Port Harcourt,…
The Senior Special Adviser to Lagos State Governor on Persons With Disabilities (PWDs), Adenike Lawal, has urged Persons With Disabilities (PWDs) to leverage on opportunities and relationships available in the…
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CARE Storms NASS, NCAA, Addresses Continued Discrimination Against PWDs By Aviation Stakeholders
The House of Representatives Committee Chairman on Aviation and the Director General, Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) recently hosted delegates from the Centre for Ability Rehabilitation and Empowerment (CARE) to…
A group of Persons Living with Disabilities from Northwestern states has pledged to support Gov. Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto State in his pursuit of his presidential ambition. The group made…
Disability News
Lois Auta Urges UN Women To Set A Day Aside To Celebrate Women And Girls With Disabilities
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…
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…