PWDs Celebrity of the Week 003: Olufemi S.A. Bayode’s story like other stories is inspiring. He lost his sight before he could write his external examinations. For him, the situation…
Widows, Orphans and Widowers in Barkin Ladi & Riyom LGAs received farming input (fertilizers) from Beautiful Gate Handicapped People Centre Jos. The intervention was to assist them in their farming…
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has appointed two persons living with disabilities, Mr. Joseph Dakop, a person with physical Disability and Haruna Tsafe, Deaf as members of the National Campaign…
The stanza in the Nigerian National Anthem, ‘Arise O Compatriots’ came alive recently as Nigerians from different walks of life rallied round a physically challenged girl, Ginika, as a good…
Mudashiru Obasa, Speaker, Lagos State House of Assembly. The Speaker of Lagos State House of Assembly, Mudashiru Obasa is to partner Virtual Entrepreneurship on a five-day online workshop, aimed at…
Imo State Governor, Senator Hope Uzodinma has pledged his commitment to protect the interest of Northerners living in the State as well as Persons living with Disabilities (PWDs). Uzodinma, spoke…
Following the broadcast of the outcry of the Joint National Association of Persons with Disabilities by Radio Nigeria Positive FM News on the governor’s promised appointment letters to 30 of…
As Nigeria joins the rest of the world to commemorate this year’s edition of International Youth Day, a call has gone out to the President, Muhammadu Buhari and the Minister…
The University of Ilorin says its Department of Jurisprudence and International Law, recently won the Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA) $80,000 {approximately N30.3 million} grant. It said that…
THE Executive Director of Foundation for Partnership Initiative in the Niger Delta (PIND), Dara Akala has said that the Niger Delta region needs innovative approaches to skills development that will…
Chairman of the Joint National Association of Persons with Disabilities (JONAPWD), Board of Trustees (BOT), Prince Paul Adelabu has recounted how he miraculously started walking six years after his birth…
The Joint Association of Persons with Disabilities (JONAPWD), in Jakusko local Government of Yobe State has called on the Senate President, Ahmed Lawan to extend his philanthropic gestures to persons…
Men of the Ogun State Police Command have arrested a 24-year-old man, Godwin Akpan, for forcefully having carnal knowledge of a 20-year-old girl with Down’s syndrome. The victim was reportedly…
The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Anambra State chapter, led by the president, Rev. John Ndubuisi, yesterday, 24th July, 2020, donated palliative items to Persons with Disabilities in Anambra to…
The Gombe State House of Assembly has confirmed receipt of Disability Right Bill from the Joint Association of Persons with Disability (Gombe State Chapter). Secretary of the Joint Association and…
