and programmes that would deepen national capacity towards meeting the objectives of providing equal opportunities for Persons Living With Disabilities, PLWDs.
Maiyaki made this pledge on Monday while speaking at the maiden edition of the National Conference on Equal Opportunity of Access to Higher Education organised by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB. The conference, which has as its theme, ‘Towards Increasing Equal Opportunity of Access to Higher Education in Nigeria’, is aimed at boosting the enrolment opportunities of persons with disabilities in the Nigerian tertiary education system.
According to the NUC boss, available statistics indicated that there were over 27 million Nigerians living with one form of disability or the other, including visual, hearing, physical, intellectual and communication impairment.