The Kirikasamma and Guri Local Government Councils in Jigawa plan to woo 109,560 children with sweets and other confectioneries to take polio vaccines. Alhaji Sunusi Doro,...
The Adamawa Government has confirmed the reemergence and detection of Circulating Vaccine Derived Polio virus type 2 case in the state. Professor Abdullahi Isa, the state...
With no recorded cases since 2016, the World Health Organisation has declared Africa free of the wild polio virus. The United Nations specialised agency on public...
Vaccinations for up to 12 million children to prevent the spread of polio in Africa will be delayed, in a major redeployment of polio eradication resources to fight...
A year after Nigeria was removed from the polio-endemic list, two cases have been reported in Borno state, where the insurgent Boko Haram still controls territory....
The Minister of Health, Prof.Isaac Adewole, yesterday, confirmed an outbreak of wild polio virus, WPV, in Borno State. This is coming after Nigeria celebrated two years...
Nigeria’s hope of being certified Polio-free by the World Health Organisation (WHO), next year, might have been dashed, as two new cases have been reported. Health...
By Chris Nomjov The World Health Organization (WHO), today, October 26th officially removed Nigeria from the list of polio endemic countries. The formal de-listing comes, one...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has stated that the delisting of Nigeria from polio endemic nations by the World Health Organization (WHO) was made possible by...
NAN The Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu, has directed Nigerians visiting India to take Oral Polio Vaccine six weeks prior to their arrival in India....
The billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates has warned that violence in Pakistan and Nigeria is threatening to derail his plan to eradicate polio in the world by...
NAN The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar, on Sunday urged parents in the country to allow their children to be fully immunised against polio. Abubakar...
