2023 elections: advocating more inclusion for PWDs
Some Persons With Disabilities By Hadiza Abdulrahman Many stakeholders who have relentlessly fought for the rights of Persons With Disabilities (PWDs) have argued that their precise number in the country is far from accurate. As a matter of fact, many and varied figures are being bandied about. For instance, as at 2020, estimates ranged between 25 and 27 million Nigerians living with one form of disability or another. However, according to the 2011 World Report on Disability , approximately 25 million Nigerians have at least one form of disability, with 3.6 million of these having significant functional difficulties. The most common types of disabilities in Nigeria include: visual, hearing, physical, intellectual, and communication impairments. It of course goes without saying that these forms of impairment are generally met with stigma, discrimination, as well as barriers that militate against their accessing basic social services, political participation,...