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Nigeria: Court remands 24 disabled people over attack
Posted 07/09-10 at 11.02
An Upper Shari'ah Court in Kano State has ordered 24 disabled people to be held in custody for allegedly attacking the Special Adviser to Kano State Governor on Disabled Persons last week. According to the police the accused attacked the g ...
Nigeria: A policy for integrating disabled people in national governance
Posted 07/07-10 at 22.46
Nigeria has begun to formulate a national policy aimed at integrating disabled people in governance. National President on Persons with Disability, Nasir Argungu, told a news conference in northern Nigeria's Kebbi State on Monday (June 28t ...
Nigeria: No disabled people begging in the state of Bayelsa
Posted 17/12-09 at 02.25
Disabled people are no longer begging on the streets of Bayelsa, a state in the heart of the oil-rich Niger Delta.This lack of begging is, according to Miss Ziriki Timipiri Godswill, senior aid to the governor, because the administration has been ...