March 2025 PolioStop
The Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Rotary International Foundation, Mark Daniel Maloney, has encouraged the Federal Government to focus on the eradication of type 2 polio variant predominant in five states across the Federation, like it did with the Wild Polio Virus, which led to Nigeria being declared Wild Polio Virus free in 2020. […]
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, […]
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 […]