Disability in Nigeria

Nigeria ramps up efforts to improve accessibility of sustainable spaces. (Mar, EnviroNews Nigeria)

Lagos: Life with a disability in the African megacity (2022, Aljazeera)

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Impact

Spaces of Exclusion and Neglect: The Impact of COVID-19 on People With Disabilities in Bangladesh, Kenya, Nepal, Nigeria, and Uganda. (Mar, Space and Culture)

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Response

Creating a more inclusive and more accessible society for a sustainable disability community in a post-COVID-19 world (2022, Pulse NG)

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Persons With Disability Protest Over Diversion Of Rice and Cash supports (Oct, Cross River Watch)

Persons with disabilities protest non-inclusion in Delta employment (Aug, Daily Post)

Foursquare Church: walking the disability inclusion talk

“It is a challenge to the church. One asks: Does the church recognize that “all things” implied in Romans 8:28 includes Disability? And if she does, the very salient question arises: what measures are in place to show it? How far have we studied to show ourselves approved in this matter? How well are we dividing the word of Truth? How well are we embracing Disability inclusion in our churches?” (Jul, Church Times)

A Closely Knitted Community Creating Safe Space for Deaf Persons in Lagos (Video feature, Jul, BO News Service)

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Narrative Change Around Disability & Climate Change: Insights and Recommendations from Stakeholders and Community Members in the Niger Delta (Jul)

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Book Famine: How policies in Nigeria limit visually impaired persons’ access to books. (Jan, Premium Times)

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Media

TheCable unveils Nigeria's first disability inclusive news application with assistive features to help access the news. (May, TheCable)

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Exploring demographic and health survey data (Jun, Disability Data Initiative)

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A Bleak Future Awaits Abuja’s Disabled Community After Fire Incident
(2022, HumAngle)

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Overview

Multidimensional Measures and the Extra Costs of Disability: How Are They Related? Exploring whether multidimensional poverty measures can be used to study the extra costs of disability. (Jan, IJERPH)

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Financial Inclusion

Gaining respect and financial stability: stories from Nigerian women. Village Savings and Loans Associations to help women set up their own businesses and cover expenses. (2021, CBM)

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Social Protection

In a leprosy colony residents endure stigma and neglect. “There are 64 leprosy settlements across Nigeria but most are in varying states of disrepair with little to no funding.” The article describes how conditions have deteriorated in one colony since the missionaries who founded the colony then left, but people have remained, and new support is not sufficient. (2022, Aljazeera)

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Overview

Inclusive Education celebrating an amazing partnership & lasting impact (2022, CBM UK)

Translating Human Rights in Education: The Influence of Article 24 UN CRPD Comparing the meanings of inclusive education in Nigeria and Germany, and how the development of inclusive education has depended on “institutionalized special education” rather than a rights-based approach. (2022, University of Michigan Press)

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Higher Education

UK to award Chevening scholarships to PWDs in Nigeria (Oct, The Cable)

On Institutional Cultures: How Inclusive are Nigerian Universities? (Oct, BONews)

Disability exclusion in Nigeria’s Students Loans Act (Jun, Nigerian Tribune)

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Decent work inaccessible to most workers with disabilities: a survey of 600 workers with disabilities. “Most of the 660 workers surveyed are self-employed and in the informal sector. Almost half of respondents earn less than Nigeria’s minimum wage and say their work environment is not accommodating to their disability.” (Mar, Solidarity Center)

Inside the lives of professionals living with invisible disabilities in Nigerian workplaces. (Jan, Techpoint)

Documentary released on women living with disabilities in mining communities (2022, Guardian Nigeria)

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Assessing impact of Disability Act on Nigerian women (2022, BluePrint)

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Report on barriers to healthcare access for Deaf Nigerian Women and Girls during Emergencies. (2022, WFD)

Healthcare Services Should be Inclusive of Persons with Disabilities: Here is How. (2022, Nigeria Health Watch)

Albinism group calls for reinstatement of free skin cancer treatment. (2022, Radio Nigeria)

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Demise of Danlami Bashir “Danlami will be remembered as one of the great leaders of the disability movement in Africa and in his country of Nigeria, where he was promoting the rights of people with disabilities, especially focusing on blind and deaf communities.” (Jun, IDA)

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Stories of being disabled and displaced from Sokoto and Zamfara. (2022, ICIR Nigeria)

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Building a Movement for Inclusive Nigeria: Highlights of DRF's Grantee Convening. (2022, Disability Rights Fund)

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Interview with Olawale Alade Olawale Alade is a Nigerian Deaf nurse in the United Kingdom where he attends to Deaf adults with varying degrees of mental health challenges. (Jun, BO News)

From telecoms engineer to disability advocate: interview with Dolapo Agbede (Feb, Techpoint)

How discrimination affects Albinos freedom. (Jan, Radio Nigeria)

It’s The Little Things: stories and life experience of people with visual impairments. (2022, Unbias the News)

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Air Travel

Nigerian airports still a nightmare for people with disabilities (Oct, TheCable)

Mainstream Disability Inclusion In Aviation Policies (Jan, Independent NG)

We shall picket airports plans to protest against lack of access in airports and airlines. (2022, Vanguard NGR)

Calls Mount For Nigerian Airports To Be Made More Accessible (2022, Simple Flying)

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Stakeholders Hail Signing Of African Disability Protocol (Feb, Heritage Times)

Disability-Inclusive Education and Employment: Understanding the Context (Mastercard Foundation)

10% of social investment programmes will be set aside for inclusion of persons with disabilities, declares the minister of social development. (2022, The Cable)

The House of Representatives passes a bill prohibiting discrimination against persons with disability (2022, Nigerian Tribune)

Nigerian Disability Rights Acts: 3 years after Prospects and challenges (2022, Pulse NG)

Lagos Govt Reiterates Commitment to People with Disabilities "with the launch of comic books aimed at promoting a friendly platform for disability inclusion." (2021, This Day)

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Federal Government to establish disability desks across Ministries, Departments and Agencies. (Nov, The Guardian)

CEAMI Initiative Launches GoVote Campaign For People With Disabilities In Nigeria’s Elections (Mar, Inclusive News Network)

I Voted: Benedicta Oyèdayọ̀ Oyèwọlé Documents the Challenges Nigerians with Disabilities Faced Voting in February’s Elections. (Mar, Disability Justice Project)

Physically-challenged persons lament hostile environment, discrimination against political dreams. (Feb, Punch)

INEC and the Police assure people living with disability of safety. “In the unfortunate incidence or occurrence of electoral violence, threat or intimidation, the PWDs are unfortunately the most vulnerable groups that may be most adversely affected. Hence, most of them shy away from the polls to safeguard themselves,” (Feb, Punch)

A young person with disabilitiy and first time voter documents their experience on polling day with text and photos. (Feb, Oyedayo, Twitter)

How blind people are frustrated by INEC’s failure to provide Braille ballot. “For over 10 years, I have been voting. My son does help me. But you know I can’t trust him because he may have a different choice from what I asked him to do for me.” (Jan, Informant 24/7)

Nigerians with disabilities seek inclusion in electoral process. (2022, Aljazeera)

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Tackling discrimination through design: “Communication materials relating to sexual and reproductive health don’t usually acknowledge the lives of people with disabilities or answer questions they might have.” (Sep, Inclusive Futures)

‘You Can’t Legislate Attitudes’ Discussion on the Deterioration of Rights for Queer and Disabled Nigerians (2022, Disability Justice Project)

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‘He Knew’: People With Disabilities Are More Vulnerable To Sexual Abuse. A story of Ifeoma and how the impacts “impacts of her encounter with an abuser are still visible in her life, decades after the incident took place.” (Feb, HumAngle)

Failure to Protect: Disabilities and Gender-Based Violence In Nigeria. (2022, Minority Africa)

How organisations of persons with disabilities are keeping people safe. Among disability organizations ”there is limited understanding of key concepts of safeguarding, why they are important, and what needs to be in place to operationalise these concepts to keep people safe” (2022, RSH)

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Accessible Sanitation in the Workplace Important Considerations for Disability-Inclusive Employment in Nigeria and Bangladesh (2022, IDS)

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