Persons with disabilities, advocates call for cheaper assistive devices across Nigeria

Persons with disabilities (PWDs) and disablement advocates person expressed interest implicit the rising outgo of assistive technologies successful Nigeria.

The concerns were raised during the commemoration of the 2026 World Day for Assistive Technology, organised by the Centre for Information Technology and Development (CITAD) astatine the School for Arabic Studies (SAS) successful Kano.

They called connected governments astatine each levels to marque indispensable devices much affordable and accessible.

Participants astatine the lawsuit said galore persons with disabilities are incapable to entree education, employment opportunities and integer services due to the fact that they cannot spend assistive devices specified arsenic ocular aids, Braille materials and mobility tools.

Speaking during a presumption connected assistive exertion for persons with albinism, Mariya Ishaq of the Albinism Association of Nigeria highlighted the value of devices and protective materials that assistance amended learning, mobility and safety.

She identified commonly utilized immunodeficiency arsenic magnifying glasses, manus magnifiers, ocular aids, sunshades, umbrellas, protective covering and sunscreen creams, noting that specified tools importantly amended the prime of beingness of persons with albinism.

However, participants lamented that the precocious outgo of these devices places them beyond the scope of galore susceptible individual...