{"id":7196,"date":"2021-02-19T15:58:06","date_gmt":"2021-02-19T15:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/polioplus.org.ng\/en\/?post_type=blog_post&#038;p=7196"},"modified":"2021-08-12T16:05:02","modified_gmt":"2021-08-12T16:05:02","slug":"dr-tunji-funsho-chair-of-nigeria-national-polioplus-committee-is-recognized-as-new-african-magazines-100-most-influential-africans-of-2020","status":"publish","type":"blog_post","link":"https:\/\/polioplus.org.ng\/en\/blog-post\/dr-tunji-funsho-chair-of-nigeria-national-polioplus-committee-is-recognized-as-new-african-magazines-100-most-influential-africans-of-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Tunji Funsho, chair of Nigeria National PolioPlus Committee, is recognized as New African Magazine&#8217;s 100 Most Influential Africans of 2020."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-6278 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/polioplus.org.ng\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/dss2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"547\" height=\"288\" srcset=\"https:\/\/polioplus.org.ng\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/dss2.png 547w, https:\/\/polioplus.org.ng\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/dss2-300x158.png 300w, https:\/\/polioplus.org.ng\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/dss2-110x58.png 110w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 547px) 100vw, 547px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Nigerian physician Dr. Funsho was the driving force behind a programme to eradicate polio from its last African redoubt in Nigeria. After a long career as a Lagos-based cardiologist, Funsho was meant to be enjoying his retirement but with polio still rampant and causing paralysis in children across Nigeria, he spearheaded Rotary International\u2019s effort to get millions of doses of the polio vaccine to children across the country. <a href=\"https:\/\/100.newafricanmagazine.com\/?fbclid=IwAR0fw2XxV1wjfH5SvzgSXfgwQvEGcflYvCd4MhgA13IbOuHlnH1deNJIzuw#pathfinders\"><strong>Read More<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigerian physician Dr. Funsho was the driving force behind a programme to eradicate polio from its last African redoubt in Nigeria. After a long career as a Lagos-based cardiologist, Funsho was meant to be enjoying his retirement but with polio still rampant and causing paralysis in children across Nigeria, he spearheaded Rotary International\u2019s effort to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6277,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[213,206,212,195,162,159],"blog-category":[],"class_list":["post-7196","blog_post","type-blog_post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-100mostinfluentianlafrican","tag-drtunjifunsho","tag-newafrican","tag-nnppc","tag-polio","tag-rotary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/polioplus.org.ng\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog_post\/7196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/polioplus.org.ng\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog_post"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/polioplus.org.ng\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/blog_post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/polioplus.org.ng\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/polioplus.org.ng\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7196"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/polioplus.org.ng\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/polioplus.org.ng\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/polioplus.org.ng\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7196"},{"taxonomy":"blog-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/polioplus.org.ng\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog-category?post=7196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}