Some Nigerians think kids with disabilities are demonic –Mother of five-year-old with cerebral palsy
Bukola Ayinde is the mother of a girl with cerebral palsy allegedly abused by her therapist. She talks about the current state of her five-year-old daughter among other issues with GBENGA ADENIJI What is the current condition of your daughter with cerebral palsy captured in a CCTV footage that went viral on the Internet in 2016 […]
Love without Boundaries with Bukola Ayinde: Every Child Deserves to Go to School
Every child, no matter the race, ability or status deserves to go to school. They deserve to be respected and treated with dignity. Quality education should not be an exclusive right of children who are physically fit and able to sit with the right posture. The fact that a child looks or acts differently from […]
Love without Boundaries with Bukola Ayinde: Learn About Disability & Help Reduce the Ignorance
A few weeks ago, a school proprietress called me to speak with a parent. The woman had withdrawn her son from school because someone had insulted her by referring to her son who had cerebral palsy in a cruel and demeaning manner. Last month, I met a proprietress who lost eighty percent of her students […]
Love without Boundaries with Bukola Ayinde: Finding a School for Nimmy
One of the joys of motherhood is to see your children go to school. It is such a pleasant sight to see them in their cute little dresses or shirt and shorts, wearing socks and tiny shoes, carrying little backpacks and lunch boxes. Some women start ‘shopping’ for a school for their children even before […]
Love without Boundaries with Bukola Ayinde: All Children are Welcome
It will be a thing of joy to see the above caption written boldly on the doorpost of junior churches all over the world. That it doesn’t matter the colour of your skin, whether you are cool or not so cool, whether you have an impairment or not but that a child is seen as […]
Love without Boundaries with Bukola Ayinde: See My Child & You Behold My Faith
My friend told me the touching story of a special needs mum. Renovation and expansion work was being done at the church that this special needs mum attended and she decided to make a suggestion. She walked up to the leader in charge of the reconstruction and respectfully asked that a ramp (a sloping surface […]
My sunshine, Oluwalonimi is five years old today
My sunshine, Oluwalonimi is five years old today; she has come a long way and I am grateful. It has been five years of learning and re-learning. Five years of healing and forgiving. It has not been easy but God has been faithful. I have learnt to be happy in spite of my challenges because […]
Love without Boundaries with Bukola Ayinde: My Faith & My Child {Part II}
When my daughter Nimmy was just a little over a year old, her paediatrician recommended that we take her to a neurologist for an assessment. She was assessed by a professor at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital. At the end of her assessment, she was graded as a stage 5 (stage 1 being least affected […]
Love without Boundaries with Bukola Ayinde: Celebral Palsy & How It is Different from Autism & Down Syndrome
When I was much younger, any time I met people who had cerebral palsy, a condition which is often characterised by walking in a wobbly manner, I usually kept a distance, because I felt they could have a mental illness such as schizophrenia. Such ignorance! However, today, I know better. In this article, I will […]
Love without Boundaries with Bukola Ayinde: My Faith & My Child
When I got my daughter’s diagnosis about four years ago, I was afraid and I felt like a disappointment to myself and to God. I felt that one of the proofs that I was in right standing with God was to have perfectly healthy children, without any problem whatsoever. I didn’t want to attend my […]
Love without Boundaries with Bukola Ayinde: Strength For Adversity
My name is Bukola Ayinde and I have a little daughter who has cerebral palsy. Four months after I had her, I noticed she could not lift up her head. Usually babies are able to do this at about four months. I was not concerned because she was my first child (I didn’t know much about babies […]
House of Reps honour crippled beggar turned lawyer, OAU record-breaker
Abdulsalam Kamaldeen, a physically challenged one-time Lagos beggar, has been honoured by the house of representatives for his rare academic feat. 38-year-old Kamaldeen overcame his physical challenge as a crippled beggar to graduate as a lawyer. Femi Gbajabiamila, leader of the House, on Tuesday called for the recognition of Kamaldeen alongside Aarinola Olaiya during a […]
