ABUJA-THE federal government has said Nigeria was still being threatened despite the certification of the country polio-free by the World Health Organisation, WHO.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Tuesday declared that Africa was free of the virus that causes polio, a landmark in a decades-long campaign to eradicate the notorious disease around the world. “Today is a historic day for Africa,” said Professor Rose Gana Fomban Leke, whose commission certified that no polio cases had occurred on […]

….As WHO certifies Nigeria free of disease By Joseph Erunke President Muhammadu Buhari said yesterday he has fulfilled his pledge to rid Nigeria of the indigenous wild poliovirus. The President made the declaration, as the World Health Organisation, WHO, declared Nigeria and the rest of Africa polio-free via an online event across the continent and […]

The World Health Organisation (WHO)  and United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) have congratulated Nigeria on being declared free of the wild poliovirus WHO Regional Office for Africa in Brazzaville, Congo, disclosed this in a statement posted on its website. The independent Africa Regional Certification Commission (ARCC) for Polio Eradication on Tuesday, officially declared WHO African […]

By Joseph Erunke THE World Health Organisation, WHO and the United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF, have congratulated Nigeria on being declared free of wild polio virus. The global organisations equally hailed the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, GPEI, partners in Nigeria who helped the country achieve the feat; the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the […]