Nigeria
Hello. This is our story.
Nine years for the Act. Five more for the deadline. It passed.
Access on this page: Signed: Nigerian Sign Language — pending How this page is tested
Nigeria's Discrimination Against Persons with Disabilities (Prohibition) Act took nine years of campaigning and was signed on 23 January 2019. It gave the country five years to make its buildings and services accessible; that moratorium expired in January 2024. In February 2021 the information minister directed every television station to put a sign-language interpreter on its major news bulletin — at the time, one station had one, in one hour. In 2024 the national disability commission published the Act itself in Nigerian Sign Language, so that the people it protects could read it. The law is ours. The deadline has passed. The delivery is the largest job on the continent.
NSL video — this story, in our language
A named Nigerian Deaf creator tells this page's story in Nigerian Sign Language. The video is the page, and the text is its transcript's cousin. This video existing is the reason this page is allowed to exist.
The deadline passed in January 2024.
The delivery starts now — made by us.
What do you want to do?
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I want access
Watch.Understand.Belong.
Television, film, and services — in Nigerian Sign Language, captions, or audio description.
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I create access
Create.Get paid.Be seen.
Deaf signers, interpreters, captioners, audio describers — your work, your name, your income.
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I provide access
One API.Every screen.
Platforms, governments, cinemas, companies — deliver real access with one integration.
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I back access
Host.Sponsor.Invest.
The builders who will deliver what the Act promised to more people than anywhere else in Africa — be part of the firsts.
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More than one of these can be yours. The access is for you, and you can be paid to help make it.
Access in Nigeria today
The law now says:
Discrimination on the ground of disability is prohibited, with a National Commission to enforce it — Act signed 23 January 2019; the five-year transition for public buildings and services ended in January 2024. Every television station shall carry a sign-language interpreter on its major news bulletin — the Broadcasting Code provision the minister directed enforced in February 2021. And since 2024 the Act exists in Nigerian Sign Language.
And we know the exhausting part: when the directive was issued, one broadcaster signed one hour. A moratorium that ends is not a building that opens.
The deadline is behind us. The delivery comes next — made by us. That is what ally is: Deaf and blind creators, paid to make the access — Nigerian Sign Language, captions, audio description — delivered to any screen.
In plain words
The law is on your side. What is missing is the service — and that is what gets built here, with the community.
Why captions alone are not enough → Why sign language
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