POLIOSTOP FOR SEPTEMBER 2024
At Rotary International and especially through the Nigeria National PolioPlus Committee (NNPPC) we have maintained our role as a founding and pivotal partner in the global fight against polio ever since the launch of Rotary’s PolioPlus program in 1985 and the launch of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) at the World Health Assembly (WHA) […]
POLIOSTOP FOR APRIL 2024
The recent visit of Rotary International President, Gordon Mclnally, to Nigeria has marked a significant milestone in the battle to assist polio eradication in Nigeria. Rotary International has long been recognized as a driving force behind the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI), leading with unwavering commitment and strategic vision. Ours has been a multifaceted role […]
POLIOSTOP FOR DECEMBER 2023
We must fight misinformation to achieve our goals in 2024. It has been said that the idle mind is the devil’s workshop. What then is an idle mind with a mobile communications device and cheap internet data? The answer to this question can be found in the repeated setbacks being suffered by our programme due to misinformation being passed around social […]
September 2022 PolioStop
It is no longer news that in the last year, we have recorded new cases of the wild poliovirus in Africa. This is asides from the escalation of outbreaks of the circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus in many African countries. The 7 cases seen so far between the end of last year and the present moment in […]
PolioStop For June 2022
On April 19 2022, Kunle Adeyanju, a Rotarian and incoming club President of the Rotary Club of Ikoyi Metro left London to begin a journey which would take him into France, Spain, Gibraltar and into Africa, he probably had an idea of the enormity of the task that lay before […]
PolioStop For March 2022
We received the news of Dr Pascal’s retirement from WHO with mixed feelings. We are happy for him for the grace of being able to take early retirement having gone 9 years of his 22 years with WHO working assiduosly to ensure polio is eradicated in Nigeria. But we will misss his immense knowledge, […]
December PolioStop 2021
A book titled “So They Can Walk” The Story of Polio Eradication in Nigeria: The Rotary Perspective, written by Prof Christopher Ogbogbo, was launched as part of 2021 World Polio Day. According to him, he was honoured to have written the book as it would continue to remind Nigerians of the past struggle with […]
PolioStop For September 2021
In recent weeks there has been a lot of reportage in the press of polio outbreaks in the country, some of them with frightening headlines that suggest that the wild poliovirus is back. While the vaccine-derived virus is still a menace that paralyses children, it must be distinguished from the wild […]