The COVID-19 pandemic continues to ravage our communities and creating obstacles in the way we were doing things. At the beginning, it was a rude shock because it was new. None of us has lived in a pandemic before so we had to "learn on the job"as it were. And...
The viral polio disease has over the years crippled hundreds of thousands of children in Africa and other parts of the world but on August 25, four years after Africa’s last case was recorded in northern Nigeria, the continent was declared free of wild polio. Still, vaccine-derived strains of the...
Nigeria is now wild polio virus free. Hurray! We have been celebrating that for at least 2 months now and while it is a commendable achievement worthy of celebration, I am beginning to feel like the time is right for us to have a reset. This year's World Polio Day...
CHAIRMAN'S ADDRESS In my virtual travels around the world since the certification of Africa as a polio-free region, a recurring question that gets asked is " now that we are certified free...
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Dr Tunji Funsho is a member of the Rotary Club of Lekki, Nigeria, past governor of District 9125, and serves on Rotary’s International PolioPlus Committee. Funsho is a cardiologist and a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of London. TIME 100 comprises individuals whose leadership, talent, discoveries, and...
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On behalf of the Nigeria National PolioPlus Committee of Rotary International, I welcome you to this historical celebration. It's been a long time coming. I want to give gratitude to God for keeping all of us to witness this day. Many who stared this journey with us are no...
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Welcome to the new year 2019- a year of great promise. As we enter the year 2019 with great optimism to hit the three year mark without any cases of wild polio virus in Nigeria, we are rededicating ourselves to plugging all loopholes ......... Click to Download ...