Tinubu said this when he received Rotary International President, Gordon Mclnally, and his team on Friday in Abuja.
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Hawkins disclosed this in his remarks at the third quarter Northern Traditional Leaders Committee on Primary Health Care’s review meeting on Monday in Abuja.
This, it said, could happen even after the country had been certified free of polio by the World Health Organisation (WHO), hence the need for the media to increase awareness for persons in the North-east to embrace routine immunisation.
Dr Zakari Adam, Head of UNICEF, Kaduna Field Office, made the assertion on Tuesday in Ilorin during the 2020 End of Year Review and Planning Meeting in Kwara.
Dan, a part-time lecturer with the Plateau State Polytechnic and a PhD student with the Nasarawa State University, Keffi, made the call in an interview with News Agency of Nigeria on Monday in Jos.
The Founder of the Foundation, Sir Emeka Offor, announced this in a message to celebrate Nigeria’s wild polio-free status by Africa’s Regional Certification Committee of the World Health Organisation.
Dr Faisal Shuaib, the Executive Director, National Primary Healthcare Development Agency, has expressed optimism that Nigeria will be declared polio free by 2020.
The Kwara State Governor, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, on Tuesday said it was a shame that the state recorded 50 per cent of the new polio cases in Nigeria, promising he would deploy necessary resources to fight the virus.
This is according to a statement by Charity Warigon, Media and Communication Expert for WHO Nigeria, in Abuja on Tuesday.
This was disclosed by the Director, Primary Health Care, Bodinga Local Government Council, Alhaji Hassan Kamba, at the commencement of the exercise.
The State Commissioner for Health, Alhaji Lawal Liman, gave the commendation at the 2018 World Polio Day celebration held in Gusau on Wednesday.
Dr Igbu made this known to the News Agency of Nigeria on the sidelines of a workshop on integrated disease surveillance and response on Wednesday in Calabar.
Saadu Salahu, Head, Public Relations Unit, National Primary Health Care Development Agency, made this known in a statement issued on Saturday in Abuja.
Dr. Esther Obinya, a UNICEF health specialist and the National Coordinator of the Hard To Reach project, told the News Agency of Nigeria in Jalingo, the Taraba State capital, on Saturday that the initiative of reaching rural communities with vaccines was recording a lot of success
The agreement was signed in Abuja between Foreign Affairs Minister, Geoffrey Onyeama, and the German Ambassador to Nigeria
In separate statements, Buhari and Tinubu described Dangote as a successful businessman worth emulating
Asibong said that state epidemiologists were investigating the case, adding that a sample of the child had been taken to a laboratory in Ibadan for testing
The laboratory was purchased with a grant from the United States Agency for International Aid to support polio eradication activities in Nigeria
‘Much more important also in our 2017 budget, we want to upgrade seven more centres for the treatment of cancer. As we are talking today, there is no public hospital in Nigeria that has cancer treatment machine that is working’
He blamed the outbreak on the Boko Haram terrorists, who he said abducted several people and prevented them from accessing health care services