Tag: Disabilities
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Lawyers with disabilities lament discrimination at work, society
Lawyers with Disabilities have expressed dissatisfaction against the continued discrimination towards them thereby calling on all stakeholders to treat everyone with physical disability same as those without disability
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NOVA Merchant Bank supports blind, partially sighted kids from Pacelli School
As part of its efforts towards commemorating the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, NOVA Merchant Bank visited the Pacelli School for the Blind and Partially Sighted, Surulere, Lagos, last Thursday, donating valuable goods and materials worth millions of naira. The International Day of Persons Living with Disabilities is a day set-aside by the…
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U.S. supports full inclusion of persons with disabilities
The United States Consulate in Lagos on Thursday called for more concerted efforts to ensure the full inclusion of persons living with disabilities in every aspect of social, political, economic, and cultural life. Delivering remarks at a program organized by Project Enable Afria in commemoration of the 2018 International Day of Persons with Disabilities, U.S.…
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Edo Govt to set up “Advisory Council on Persons with Physical Disabilities”
Gov. Godwin Obaseki of Edo says his administration would, within the next few weeks, constitute an Advisory Council on Persons with Physical Disabilities, to help implement policies geared towards integrating such persons into the society. Obaseki made this known when he received the report of the Committee on Integrating the Physically Challenged Persons into the…
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Use unclaimed funds to support people with disabilities, group begs Buhari
A group, Persons with Disabilities Initiative Nigeria, on Monday advised the Federal Government to channel unclaimed recovered monies into social intervention programmes for its members. Mr Augustine Onwuameagbu, National President of the group, gave the advice in an interview with the newsmen in Abuja. Onwuameagbu said government should utilise the unclaimed monies recovered by the…