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    The right to inclusive education in Nigeria: meeting the needs and challenges of children with disabilities
    (Centre of Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria, South Africa, 2010) Akinbola, B. R.
    The article examines the right to inclusive education in Nigeria. It asserts that the essence of the right to education is that it should be provided to all and without discrimination. It posits that, under Nigerian law, children with disabilities suffer many prejudices, including seclusion and discrimination in terms of education. It argues that such practices amount to a violation of the Nigerian commitments and obligations under international law to provide education for all and without discrimination. The article calls on the Nigerian government to put in place adequate laws and policies advancing the right of children with disabilities within its territory.
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    The law and disability discrimination in Nigeria
    (2008) Akinbola, B. R.
    This study has examined the incidence of disability as a human experience that attracts discrimination and particularly in Nigeria as a developing country. It has found discrimination to be expressed in terms of the names disabled persons are called' the causes adduced for disability under customary law and discriminatory practices under customary law. These practices include deification, mutilation and scarification. It also includes giving of care motivated by wrong motives, using a person with a disability to apply pressure on a debtor to make him pay, occupational biases, institutionalization and many other discriminatory practices. The work is in three main parts namely the pre-missionary, the missionary and the post missionary eras. The importance of legislations in regulating the relationship of society with people who have disability is examined and some recommendations are made for better protection for persons with disabilities and then a conclusion.