Dr. Adebukola Adebayo, Chairman JONAPWD Lagos The Joint National Association of Persons with Disabilities (JONAPWD) has expressed concerns that governments at all level in Lagos were paying lip service to…
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COVID-19: Kaduna-based Persons With Disabilities Decry Exclusion, Discrimination In Distribution Of Relief Materials
The Kaduna State Chapter of Joint National Association of Persons with Disabilities (JONAPWD) has expressed disappointment over the non inclusion of person with disabilities in the State Government’s planned distribution…
The Joint National Association of Persons With Disabilities (JONAPWD) Lagos State chapter, has appealed to Lagos and federal government to rethink the process of COVID-19 intervention programme to also provide…
By Oluwatosin Omojuyigbe A caregiver to people living with Down Syndrome, Kabiru Wasiu, was on Tuesday arraigned before the Lagos State Special Offences Court in Ikeja for allegedly defiling a…
About 50 million Nigerians suffer some form of mental disorder it was learnt on Wednesday. Chairman Senate Committee on Health, Senator Yahaya Oloriegbe, disclosed this in his lead debate on…
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Leroy Moore is on a mission to showcase African disabled musicians
Leroy Moore, who has been an activist for black artists with disabilities since the 1990s, uses his music and writing to share the experience of being a black, disabled man.…
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Video: Anthony Joshua fetes with physically challenged in Lagos
Former undisputed World Heavyweight Champions, Anthony Joshua was at the Modupe Home for the mentally and physically challenged on Wednesday, 17/07/2019, to fete with them and give them sense of…
The Human Rights Advocacy Centre (HRAC) and Mind Freedom Ghana in collaboration with Star Ghana have organized a two-day workshop in Takoradi for community psychiatric nurses and operators of traditional…
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Kenyan-Born Woman Weds Her Disabled Australian Man; Tells her story (photos).
After a string of conversations via WhatsApp, finally I got a perfect timing to talk to Susan Njogu Eling together with her husband Phillip Eling. She is miles away in…
Kazakh police on Tuesday detained a woman with cerebral palsy as she protested against the daughter of former strongman Nursultan Nazarbayev for calling people with disabilities “freaks”, local media reported.…
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This South Africa-invented device helps the wheelchair-users use the toilet without help. (Photo)
You might not think about it as an able-bodied person, but the simple task of using the toilet can become a hellish ordeal if you’re confined to a wheelchair. A…
A stripling of 23-years-old has been spending the last 20 years in isolation in the Nkwanta south of the Oti region, because of a medical condition. Basty Abass passes urine,…
On June 26th 2019, the National Human Rights Commission convened a reconciliation meeting for the members of Joint National Associations of Persons with Disabilities (JONAPWD) in order to resolve lingering…
LONDON — A British court has ordered an abortion for a mentally disabled woman against her and her mother’s wishes, with the judge calling the decision “heartbreaking” but in the…
The Centre for Citizens with Disabilities (CCD) in a press statement issued on Friday, 7th June, 2019 said it has began consultations with organisations of persons with disabilities in the…