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03 December 2024

When Polio Vaccine Won Against Polio Virus 4 Goals to 3

3 December 2024- It is half-time, and the polio vaccine team is tied 2-2 with the polio virus team in the final of the para-soccer match at the Giginya Memorial Stadium in the extreme northwestern Nigerian state of Sokoto. The final match culminates a three-week-long tournament of para-soccer, a fast-paced and hig...

01 September 2022

Nigeria's Polio Journey to Zero

Najaatu Musa makes her way through Bosso2 community. She leads her team on the house-to-house routine vaccination campaign in Minna, Niger State, north-central Nigeria. They make a stop at Amina Mohammed’s compound, where a member of her team vaccinates six-month-old Amina, who shares the same name with her mum. N...

03 December 2021

In northern Nigeria, a polio survivor mobilizes support for vaccination

KANO, 3 December 2021 – When Nigeria faced hurdles in its polio eradication campaign in the city of Kano, Aminu Ahmed Tudun-Wada, a polio survivor, made up his mind to do something about it. He didn’t want the children of Kano to be paralyzed by polio like he was. He mobilized other polio survivors and started an ...

In north-west Nigeria, polio survivors work to boost immunization coverage

KANO, 25 May 2021 - At the age of three, doctors told Sani Abdullahi’s parents he would never walk again. They were heartbroken, and his mother cried profusely. But Abdullahi’s parents resolved they would find a cure for the disease that had disabled their son. “I realized I couldn’t do what children my age could ...

WHO and UNICEF congratulate Nigeria on ending wild poliovirus; call for strengthening of routine immunisation

WHO and UNICEF today congratulated Nigeria on being declared free of the wild poliovirus but stressed that achieving this milestone is not the end of the job - all children under five years must continue to be vaccinated against vaccine-preventable diseases. This is critical to significantly reduce avoidable morta...

Volunteers make polio eradication a reality

Nigeria is Africa’s largest country, rife with opportunity but also beset by challenges of high growth and demand for services that often goes unmet. Polio still exists; a quarter of the population still practices open defection and millions don’t have access to clean water. Against this backdrop, UNICEF Nigeria i...

Last mile to end polio in Nigeria

Nigeria is closer than ever to ending polio. Since August 2016, there have been no cases reported in the country. Yet, obstacles persist on the road to zero. community-vaccinator But until all children everywhere are consistently immunized against polio, the threat exists. The work must continue until there is not...

Japan gives US$ 33.3 million in emergency polio funding

Abuja, 20 March 2017 – Japan, as one of the largest supporters of efforts to eradicate polio in Nigeria, has provided a grant of US$33 million for emergency polio vaccination efforts in the Lake Chad region. In response to the urgent need to increase immunity to polio in the region, Japan has provided funding fro...