THE PROTECTION OF DISABILITY RIGHTS UNDER THE NIGERIAN NATIONAL FRAMEWORK
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2025
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JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE LAW IN AFRICA
Abstract
There were various reports and studies shown in 2021 indicating that the
population of persons living with disabilities in Nigeria has exceeded 32 million.
Generally speaking, the issues surrounding disability conditions and welfare are
usually addressed as matters of welfare and charity. This attitude has precipitated
the continued social exclusion and marginalisation of persons with disabilities in
Nigeria. Nigeria has ratified the United Nations Convention on the Rights of
Persons with Disabilities and its Optional Code. Another milestone in the country’s
efforts to promote disability inclusion and achieve sustainable improvement in the
conditions of persons with disabilities was reached in January 2019, when it
signed into law the Discrimination against Persons with Disabilities (Prohibition)
Act. Despite the passage of these laws, people with disabilities continue to face
discrimination, insecurity, violation of rights, stigmatisation, and lack of access
to basic amenities daily. Silhouetted against this backdrop, this paper examines
the extent of the protection of disability rights under the Nigerian legal regime.
This paper employs a doctrinal and qualitative methodology of legal research in
which relevant primary and secondary sources of legal materials are subjected to
descriptive and content analysis. The paper then concludes with recommendations
on how to achieve effective protection of disability rights in Nigeria.
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persons with disabilities; rights; protection; framework; Nigeria