A mother of one who is visually impaired has cried out for help after being abandoned by her husband who allegedly gained custody of their only child forcefully, INN reports…
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WEWE/USAID Drills JONAPWD For Better And Effective Performance
In a bid to strengthen the Joint National Association of People With Disabilities (JONAPWD)’s organizational delivery capacities and consequent upon the continued efforts by JONAPWD to be one of the…
Photos: Basking in the Euphoria of Valentine celebration, INN recounts Sweet tales of Queen Janny’s Valentine gathering with PWDs
The Valentine bash for the People With Disabilities (PWDs) have come and gone, but the aura and euphoria of the event remains fresh. Our INN team you may recall have…
PHOTOS: DWAN, Abuja Chapter, Holds Vocational Skill Training For Deaf Women; Wants Interpreters In Healthcare Facilities
There is currently an on-going vocational training for deaf women organized by the Abuja chapter of Deaf Women Association of Nigeria (DWAN) led by its chairperson, Helen Beyioku-alase, INN reports.…
Sign Language Video: Meet Haben Girma, First Deaf-Blind person to graduate from Harvard Law School
Video Credits: DPAN TV (The Sign Language Channel) Click below to watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5cfS_HQLkM&feature=youtu.be
It’s easy to forget how inaccessible our world is to anyone with limited vision or hearing. Even something as simple as watching a Facebook video is a challenge due to…
Nigerian Spinal Cord Injury Survivor Selected For The Convention Of Right Of Person With Disabilities
As ERPWDI Creates New Logo A spinal cord injury survival, Mohammed Abba Isa, who is the CEO of Rebuilding Hope on Wheels Initiative (RHOWi) Yobe State Chapter, has been…
People Living with Disabilities Must Be Treated as Equal Members of Society – Abiodun Paseda
He does not live with a physical or mental disability, but Abiodun Enilari Paseda, a Business Administration and Marketing Management graduate of the Ogun State University, Ago Iwoye, and University…
PWDs in Anambra Strategizing Measures To Attract Revenue For Anambra State PWDs; Set Agenda for 2018
• Further Lauds Gov Obiano’s Government The Executive members of the Joint National Association of Persons With Disabilities (JONAPWD) Anambra State Chapter, in a meeting with the Office of the…
DWAN IS A GIFT TO ALL DEAF WOMEN IN NIGERIA NOW AND IN THE FUTURE -Deaconess Adedoyin Beyioku-Alase
Meet Deaconess Adedoyin Beyioku-Alase, widely known as ‘Mama Deaf’. A hard working and industrious Deaf mother of four. She’s a trained social worker by the Lagos State Ministry of Sports…
Drama As Furious Judge Apologises To Disabled Lawyer Who Took His Parking Space
A federal judge in Lagos on Wednesday apologised profusely to a disabled lawyer, Daniel Onwe, over the absence of vehicle parking space for people living with disabilities in and around…
Unproven Settlement: Persons With Disablities Attack Leaders In A’Ibom
A supposed abandonment of persons with disablity by the Akwa Ibom State Government, over the years, has occasioned a no love lost relationship between Akwa Ibom Persons Living with…
Bullies Almost Made Me Drop Out Of School –Ifeoma, Physically Challenged Life Coach
Sharon Ifeoma, is a Port Harcourt, Rivers State-based corporate trainer. Despite being afflicted by polio as a child, her drive to be a star has not slowed down. In this…
THE SUN AWARD’LL PROPEL ME TO DO MORE – IZUNASO, HUMANITARIAN SERVICE WINNER
Chairman of Kpakpando Foundation, Senator Osita Izunaso, has described his choice as The Sun Humanitarian Service Award winner for 2017 as a huge surprise that will spur him to do…
President Muhammadu Buhari Commissioned Special School in Nassarawa State (Photos)
REMARKS BY HIS EXCELLENCY, MUHAMMADU BUHARI, PRESIDENT OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA, ON THE OCCASION OF THE COMMISSIONING OF COMPREHENSIVE SPECIAL SCHOOL, LAFIA, NASARAWA STATE: TUESDAY, 6TH FEBRUARY, 2018. …