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President Tinubu signs AU instrument on rights of persons with disabilities

The instrument was adopted by the 30th Ordinary Session of the Assembly, held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on January 29, 2018.

• October 19, 2023
President Bola Tinubu signing Students Loan Bill into law
President Bola Tinubu signing Students Loan Bill into law [Photo: Twitter/OfficialABAT]

President Bola Tinubu has signed the Instrument of Ratification of the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Africa.

The instrument was adopted by the 30th Ordinary Session of the Assembly, held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on January 29, 2018.

Presidential spokesman Ajuri Ngelale disclosed this in a statement on Thursday in Abuja.

“I, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR, President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, do hereby formally declare that the Federal Republic of Nigeria accepts the aforementioned protocol and undertakes to faithfully perform and carry out the stipulations therein contained.

“In witness whereof, I, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR, have set my hand and Seal of the Federal Republic of Nigeria on this Instrument of Ratification at Abuja on this 19th day of October in the year Two Thousand and Twenty-Three,” the statement read.

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