Federal Govt Plans Trade, Business Opportunities For Persons With Disabilities

National Commission for Persons with Disabilities (NCPWD) and the Federal Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment have agreed to establish a technical working committee to develop strategies for integrating persons with disabilities (PWDs) into the ministry’s trade, investment and entrepreneurship programmes.
The agreement followed a meeting between the executive secretary of NCPWD, Ayuba Burki Gufwan, represented by the commission’s director of Social Integration, Lawrence Idemudia, and the minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Jumoke Oduwole, in Abuja.
According to a  statement issued by Ishaku Kigbu, head of NCPWD Media and Publicity Unit, the commission sought opportuniti...