Nigeria expects to receive its first doses of a COVID-19 vaccine in January, the country’s health minister said on Wednesday, but officials do not yet know which one they will…
President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the immediate reopening of four major land borders in Nigeria. The four borders are Seme in the South-west part of the country, Ilela in the…
By Emmanuel Elebeke Following the earlier directive on the suspension of new SIM registration by network operators, the Federal government has directed all operators in the country to disconnect every…
I do not want you to leave the online social communities. But I would announce: Excessive use of Social Media can- is actually killing! How? While the social media has…
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Nigeria’s Dr. Sotonwa wins Trailblazers Award in the US, Promises Quality Education, an End to Language Deprivation of DHH
Nigeria-born, Missouri Commission for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, (MCDHH) Executive Director and second Nigerian Deaf Lawyer, Dr. Opeoluwa Sotonwa has received the Judge Arnold Krekel Trailblazer Award for…
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PWDs in Anambra Conclude Activities Marking 2020 IDPDs With Church Service In Awka.
By Chibuzor Okoye Anambra state community of persons with disabilities on Sunday, 6th Dec. 2020 ended the activities lined up for this year’s International Day of Persons with Disabilities (IDPDs)…
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2020 INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITY: BUILDING BLACK BETTER: TOWARD A DISABILITY-INCLUSIVE, ACCESSIBLE AND SUSTAINABLE POST COVID-19 WORLD
Long, long ago, children and individuals who had a disability were considered plagues—people with epidemic and highly contagious diseases who needed only to be quarantined and made separate from the…
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IPC to provide free-to-air coverage of Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games in Sub-Saharan Africa
The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) is to provide free-to-air (FTA) coverage of the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games in Sub-Saharan Africa as part of its efforts to raise awareness of Para…
President Muhammadu Buhari has unveiled the Natural Gas Expansion Programme (NGEP) and Auto-gas initiative with a call on Nigerians to embrace the use of gas as an alternative to Premium…
By Oluwafunke Ishola The Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS in Nigeria (NEPWHAN) has called on stakeholders to collaborate to put an end to Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) in Nigeria…
Many people in the disability community in Nigeria would have certainly heard about Helen Keller before now, but very few of us know about the extraordinary life of this woman…
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Fungi in digestive system associated with cognitive disability can be reduced through ketogenic diet
By Chukwuma Muanya Specific fungi in the gut-associated with a higher risk of Alzheimer’s disease and found in people with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) can be altered in a beneficial…
At some moment in the life of man, he would wish he were something or somebody else. The amounts of these wishful feelings would be profoundly overwhelming. Generally, we all…
•Adamawa State governor, Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri By ONIMISI ALAO, Yola Thirty-six people who had suffered vision loss for many years have regained their sight following a medical outreach in communities…
Finalists of the on going MTN Yello Star hunt, a singing competition put together by number one communication network in Nigeria, MTN Nigeria, Jesse John, with the stage name Jesse…