By Joseph Edegbo Parents and caregivers have been advised to make their children of less than 5 years of age available for vaccination as Kaduna State commences another round of…
By Toyin Adebayo The Executive Director, National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) Dr Faisal Shuaib on Monday hinted that about 121 children have been infected by the environmental poliovirus…
Mr Asishana Okuaru, the Director-General of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF), has commended state governors’ efforts in achieving polio-free status in 2020. Okuaru, who gave the commendation at the Nigeria…
No fewer than 100 million African children have been vaccinated against polio in the past one year, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has said. WHO Regional Director for Africa, Dr…
By Onimisi Alao A strain of poliomyelitis has resurfaced in Adamawa State. The government disclosed this at the start of a response action against the strain. “One case of Circulating…
National Primary Health Care Development Agency has urged caregivers in Anambra State to ensure they take their children and wards who are under the age of two to partake in…
By Nsa Gill In line with Federal Government intervention to eradicate polio in Nigeria, the Cross River State Primary Health Care Development Agency and its partners is targeting the vaccination…
The Kano State government has administered the oral polio vaccine to over 3.24 million children less than five years. The house-to-house exercise, according to the Commissioner for Health, Aminu Ibrahim,…
The Rotary Club of Naraguta, District 9125, on Saturday donated some wheelchairs to Polio survivors in Jos, Plateau. The club donated the chairs during the investiture ceremony of its 36th…
By Angela Onwuzoo A Professor of Human Nutrition and Dietetics at the University of Calabar, Cross River State, Henrietta Ene-Obong, says there is need for health workers to visit homes…
By CHARLES IWUOHA The World Health Organisation (WHO) has rated Enugu State high for its overwhelming satisfactory polio immunisation campaign just-concluded in the state. The high rating and commendation was…
By Chima Azubuike Thirty-four-year-old Haruna Yusuf is a polio survivor and a shoe cobbler at Gombe Market, Gombe State. He had experienced tough times because of his condition but refused…
President Muhammadu Buhari has urged World leaders not to relent until the Wild Polio Virus is kicked out. He made the appeal at an event organised by Rotary International to…
by Mayowa Tijani President Muhammadu Buhari says he has fulfilled his pledge to rid Nigeria of the indigenous wild poliovirus. On Tuesday, the World Health Organisation declared Nigeria and the…
The independent Africa Regional Certification Commission (ARCC) for Polio Eradication officially declared the World Health Organisation (WHO) African Region is free of wild poliovirus. This marks eradication of the second…