The United Nations on its 21st Session of the Committee in Geneva, Switzerland elected a physically challenged Nigerian, Mr. Danlami Basharu as the Chair, United Nations Committee on the Rights…
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Persons living with disability in Bayelsa on Monday March 25, blocked the state government house, protesting over the alleged refusal of the state government to give them slots in the…
by Seun Durojaiye – Professor Mashudu Tshifularo and his team at the University of Pretoria performed the world’s first middle-ear surgery using 3D technology – Thabo Moshiliwa, 40, and 62-year-old…
by Jerrywright Ukwu Following the signing into law of the Discrimination Against Persons with Disabilities (Prohibition) Act, 2018 by President Muhammadu Buhari, the Disability Rights Advocacy Center (DRAC) has launched…
A deaf teenager with an idea for improving communication is getting support from Frisco police. Jack Musser, a 16-year-old Boy Scout, came up with the idea as part of his…
FIVE REASONS TO VOTE PwD INTO ELECTIVE POLITICAL OFFICES IN NIGERIA
Politics in Nigeria has long been a war between two powerful political parties controlling various positions from presidency to the least posts even though Nigeria has more than 200 parties.…
A group of Person living With Disability (PWD) have rallied together and gathered resource to purchase nomination form for its All Progressive Congress disability leader, Hon. Misbahu Lawan Didi who…
The Kpakpando Foundation ably led by its Chairman, Senator Osita Izunaso, paid a courtesy visit to the office of the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the federation, Hon.…
Worthy Women NPC in South Africa was part of the 3,500,000 participants from 100 countries which took part in the International Good Deeds Day, clocking over 7 million hours of…
Members of delegates at the ongoing African Women Summit in Abuja, which was organised by COWAP, have rejected the man-representative of Sen. Aisha Alhassan, who was sent to deliver her…
Persons with disabilities (PWDs) in the Bolgatanta Municipality area in Ghana have been trained in effective financial management and money literacy to help them garner skills required in manage…
VOICE Ghana Director, Francis Asong, Receives Community Hero Award
Mr Francis Asong, Director of Voice of People with Disability Ghana (VOICE Ghana) has received a Community Hero of Philosophy Award from the National Philanthropy Forum (NPF), INN reports from…
Children with Disabilities in the Upper West Region have presented a 10-point manifesto for onward submission to parliament to be included in society and accessibility to school infrastructure as enjoined…
Disability they say is not inability; 52-year-old blind Samuel Kwasi Nyedu has proved the assertion right as he defied all odds to sell coconut to fend for himself and his…
An NGO, Wheels of Hope Rising Foundation, partners with the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (FUNAAB), and the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), to embark on medical intervention in Ogun, INN…