
Nigeria targets polio certification by 2020 – NEC
National Economic Council (NEC) says Nigeria is making conscious efforts toward achieving polio certification by the year 2020. The information was conveyed by Gov. Willie […]
National Economic Council (NEC) says Nigeria is making conscious efforts toward achieving polio certification by the year 2020. The information was conveyed by Gov. Willie […]
The global fight against polio reached a new milestone on Thursday when the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared that only one virus strain remained, while […]
The co-chair of Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill Gates has commended the efforts of Borno state government on the fight against polio, in the […]
By Auwalu YusufThe Daura Local Government Area in Katsina State has immunised 80,468 children against polio during the just-concluded Polio routine immunisation exercise. Malam Ahmed […]
By Yakubu UbaNo fewer than 1.13 million children are expected to be vaccinated against polio in the ongoing four-day house-to-house immunisation exercise in Adamawa. The […]
By Ayodeji Alabi Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State says era of data falsification by health workers in polio eradication and routine immunisation in the […]
A Federal High Court in Sokoto has declared unlawful the arrest and detention of a lawyer Aminu Alhassan for refusing the administration of polio vaccination on his […]
Even as the world has not been so close to the eradication of polio, yet Nigeria, Pakistan and Afghanistan are still battling to protect children […]
By Abdallah el-Kurebe, Editor Aimed at sustaining the current tempo of keeping Poliomyelitis at bay, the Sokoto state government in collaboration with UNICEF has introduced […]
Alhaji Aminu Mana, the Director, Primary Health Care, Wurno Local Government Council of Sokoto State, says lack of logistics support is hampering polio immunisation in […]
The World Health Organisation (WHO) says it immunised about 79, 000 children of below five years against polio during the just concluded polio immunisation in […]
Bauchi Local Government Council in Bauchi State is targeting 233,485 children in a five-day immunisation against poliomyelitis to curb the Circulating Vaccine-Derived Polio Virus Type […]
By Abdallah el-Kurebe, Editor The Executive Director of the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), Dr. Faisal Shuaib has said that Nigeria might be certified […]
The Bauchi State Government says it is intensifying efforts on surveillance system to fight type 2 Polio virus found in the state. Circulating Vaccine-Derived Polio […]
Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State says he has identified gaps hindering the eradication of polio in the state and the country at large. Akeredolu […]
No fewer than 79,088 children were immunised at the just concluded phase 11 of the Outbreak Response against Polio in Daura Local Government Area (LGA) […]
No fewer than 60,989 children under five years were immunised against polio in Maiadua Local Government Area of Katsina State. Malam Alhassan Danjuma, the council’s […]
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has urged governments at all levels to ensure routine immunisation in order to end polio among Nigerian children. Mr […]
Zamfara State has not recorded any case of wild polio virus for six years running, the state Commissioner for Health, Lawal M-Liman, has said. M-Liman […]
The German government has committed 150 million Euros to ensure total eradication of polio in Nigeria, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Spokesperson, Dr Tiwatope Elias-Fatile, […]
The Federal Republic of Germany and Nigeria has signed a 29.9 million Euros agreement in support of polio eradication programme in the country, a statement […]
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has stressed the need to redouble efforts to eradicate the polio disease in Nigeria, Afghanistan and Pakistan. WHO stated this […]
The Rotary Club of Abuja has urged the Etsu Bwari, Mr Ibrahim Yaro, to always sensitise his subjects about polio immunisation to prevent recurrence of […]
By Lawal A. Dogara, Kaduna A Non Governmental Organization Journalists Initiatives on immunization Against Polio JAP, in collaboration with Kaduna State Ministry Of Health and […]
Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal of Sokoto State has flagged off immunization plus days with a call on stakeholders not to relent until the country is […]
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