Raji Ade Oba is a Deaf scholar, writer, public SpecialED teacher, and media and communications professional. He is an award-winning disability rights activist and has habitually engaged in broader pedagogical conversations in Nigeria and abroad about safeguarding, governance, and institutional challenges confronting people with disabilities. Raji Oba has produced several evidence-based, high-quality, and original content publications about peculiar matters concerning the disability community in Nigeria. He uses writing and teaching to help discover potentials in ‘exceptional individuals”, which ultimately has helped the community to be its best.<br/>
The Federal Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy (NITDA) has urged rivers state people living with disabilities to acquire digital literacy to better individual lives and help grow the economy.
The National Commission of People with Disabilities (NCPWD) has determined to implement a five-point thematic plot to improve the resources and opportunities of people with disabilities in Nigeria in 2022.
Our generation is suffering from what a particular study coined “Time Famine”, the universal feeling of having too much to do but not enough time to deal with those demands.
The greatest challenge for people with disabilities isn't the inability to hear speech, to see colours, to use the limbs effectively, or to process information rapidly.
Late Poet and Writer Maya Angelou’s iconic appearance on a US quarter coin is a big win for not only African-Americans but also Nigerian disability community which remains a minority.
<em>In what is fast becoming a global 'ritual', as nations, organizations, and communities are rebranding and restructuring to achieve inclusion and accessibility for all people with disabilities, no fewer than five persons with disabilities appointed in Governor-elect Charles Soludo’s Transition Team in the state of Anambra.</em>
As part of the national effort at reintegration and inclusion of over 35 million Nigerians with disabilities, the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) has determined to provide special enrolment services to people with disabilities.
Long, long ago, children and individuals who had a disability were considered plagues—individuals with epidemic and highly contagious diseases who needed only to be quarantined and made separate from the mainstream society.
