Abstract
As part of Nigeria’s commitment to implement the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and
Peo ples’ Rights on the Rights of Persons with Disability in Africa, 2018, the government ratified the
Protocol on the 19th of October, 2023 being the newest international document ratified by Nigeria on
disability. Articles 1, 3, 16(3)(g), and 19(2)(g) made s pecific reference to reasonable accommodation
concerning definition, general principles, the right to education, and the right to work, respectively.
The Nigerian government had earlier signed into law the Discrimination Against Persons with
Disabilities ( Prohibition) Act 2018 that addressed issues of discrimination. This paper, therefore, will
examine the reasonable accommodation of women and girls with disabilities in the context of the right
to education in Nigeria concerning the aforementioned domestic laws as it relates to the UN Sustainable
Development Goals 2030 and the Africa Agenda 2063, for which Nigeria has shown commitments to
actualize. This paper will be analyzed, relying on four theories of disability the medical model of
disability, the soc ial model of disability, the rights based model of disability, and the integrated model
of disability. This paper will discuss architectural barriers, lack of trained educators, lack of
infrastructural facilities, rejection from family and society, lack of awareness about the existence of
their rights, and attitudinal barriers as constituting challenges to the actualization of the right to
education of women and girls with disabilities in Nigeria. This paper will recommend that the Nigerian
government shoul d pursue a rigorous educational policy that will promote the reasonable
accommodation of women and girls with disabilities concerning their right to education because the
Road Map for the Nigerian Educational Sector 2024 2027 did not capture this issue o f women and
girls with disabilities and their right to education as encapsulated in the ADP and DAPWDPA, 2018.
Keywords: reasonable accommodation, women and girls with disabilities, right to education,
discrimination, human rights, accessibility and inclusion