Tag: POLIO
I’m ashamed Kwara recorded 50% new polio cases – AbdulRazaq
Kwara State Governor, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, has said
it was a shame that the state recorded 50 per cent of the new polio cases in
Nigeria, saying...
Ondo health workers will no longer falsify polio data – Akeredolu
Ondo State
Governor, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, has said that the era of data falsification by
health workers in polio eradication and routine immunisation in the state is
gone...
Tiwa Savage becomes Rotary celebrity ambassador for polio eradication
Nigerian singer, Tiwa Savage, has joined Rotary’s This Close public awareness campaign for polio eradication.
Tiwa, who has been described by CNN as Nigeria’s biggest...
Military helicopters rush polio vaccines to Borno
Emergency military helicopters on Friday rushed polio vaccines to dangerous parts of north-eastern Nigeria, where Boko Haram operates and two paralysed toddlers were recently...
Two fresh polio cases reported in Nigeria
Nigeria has reported the first two cases of polio after more than two years, in an area newly liberated from Islamic extremists who attacked...
Buhari welcomes Nigeria’s removal from list of polio-endemic countries
President Muhammadu Buhari has welcomed the announcement by the World Health Organization that polio is no longer endemic in Nigeria.
A statement by Special Adviser...