As it successfully holds parley workshop The Parent Association for Children with Intellectual Disabilities (PACID-Ghana), in collaboration with New Horizon Special School, has held a day workshop to sensitise…
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Ahead Of 2019: PWDs Demands Inclusive Reform; Electoral Laws Amendments
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…
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…
JONAPWD National secretariat in Abuja played host to CBM International represented by Dr Balogun Adekunle Israel on the 1st of March 2018, INN reports The information was shared on…
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…
The US Embassy Abuja represented by Mr Franz Seitz Philip paid a working visit to JONAPWD Secretariat on the 1st of March 2018 to explore New areas of partnership with…
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; 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…
As group heap on giving Hope to People With Disabilities In a massage posted and shared on Facebook, to the Voice of Disability Initiatives (VDI), Mr Adebukola Adebayo…