Persons with physical disability

Mr. Wilson Yao Agbesi – a member of the Ghana Wheelchair Minigolf Association (GAWMA), has said the introduction of the sport will further enhance the principle of social inclusion in…

The Disability Not A Barrier Initiative (DINABI) on Wednesday 2nd October, 2019 organized a programme tagged: “Back to School Version 2.1” for students with visual impairments at the Government Special…

The Lagos Waste Management Authority (LAWMA) says it has employed 20 physically-challenged persons as sweepers of pedestrian bridges across the state. The Managing Director (MD) of LAWMA, Dr. Muyiwa Gbadegesin,…

The National Amputee Football team of Cameroon may miss out on their very first international tournament in Angola over lack of funding. Footballers with disabilities play on the National Amputee…

By Richard P. Ngbokai No fewer than 4670 cases of spinal cord injuries have been recorded at the National Orthopedic Hospital Dala, Kano state between December, 2018 and 2019. The…

Thirty-five-year-old Mary Kpornogbe is disabled but will rather define her circumstances by creating her own economic base in her remote community of Teikpitikorpe in the Ada East District in the…

Comrade Mohammed Abba Isa, a Disability rights advocate, APC Zonal Disabled Leader, NorthEast and a member of Yobe state government’s High Level political Forum HLPF 2030 Agenda representing Persons with…

Ghana has designated 2019 as the Year of Return to commemorate 400 years since the first enslaved Africans arrived in Jamestown, Virginia in the United States. The government has been…

Former England three-time amputee football World Cup winner Mr. Steve Johnson has paid a courtesy visit to the President of the National Paralympic Committee of Ghana Mr. Samson Deen, aimed…

By Editor   As the Change Makers editions of the Globacom-sponsored CNN African Voices began yesterday, the thrust of the 30-minute magazine programme will be the dexterities of Nigerian artificial limb…

The Ethiopian airline, flyethopian, has presented Grace Jerry, the Executive Director of Inclusive Friends Association, with a brand new wheelchair as a compensation for her wheelchair whose foot-hold was lost…

By Daudu Huleji Emmanuel Hon. Lois Auta, Founder CedarSeed Foundation and Former Candidate for the House of Representatives in the just concluded 2019 general Elections has expressed her dissatisfaction over…

The Ethiopian airline has caused serious outrage among Nigerians with disabilities after it grounded popular disability advocator and Executive Director of Inclusive Friends Association, Grace Jerry, for more than 3…

“Disability isn’t inability”, the recurrent verse on the lips of persons living with disability is undoubtedly true taking into consideration the amazing works of some disables in Ghana especially King…

Speaker Femi Gbajabiamila of the House of Representatives has announced the appointment of Abdulsalam Idowu Kamaldeen, a physically challenged man, as one of his special assistants. Kamaldeen, who suffered polio…