Malaysia has reported its first polio case in 27 years, health authorities said Sunday, announcing a three-month-old baby had been diagnosed on Borneo island.

As part of efforts to ensure Nigeria maintains its polio-free status, the Rotary Club of Ogudu GRA, has immunised over 100 children in Ogudu community of Kosofe local council, Lagos, against polio virus and its paralysis effects.

Parents lined up from sunrise holding sleeping infants as the Philippines launched a campaign on Monday to vaccinate millions of children against polio, which has re-emerged nearly two decades after the nation's last cases.

The District 9110 Governor, Rotary International, Dr. Jide Akeredolu, has urged the government and Nigerians not to relent in the fight against polio, saying, lots of effort was needed for the country...

The Philippines Friday launched a programme to immunise millions of children from polio after the Asian nation was hit by its first outbreak of the crippling disease in nearly two decades.

North East Coordinator of the World Health Organisation (WHO), Fadinding Manneh has said that experts from Nigeria and Niger have adopted cross-border disease surveillance strategies against diseases.

Founder of Wellbeing Foundation Africa, Toyin Saraki has urged Nigerians to celebrate cautiously and without complacency the milestone of being free of Wild Polio Virus for three years.

The District 9110 Governor (DG) of Rotary International, Dr. Jide Akerele, has said Nigeria is a month away from being declared polio-free. Akerele, who was hosted by the Rotary Club of Falomo...

The National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) says no fewer than 50,000 children are yet to be reached with wild polio vaccine in some parts of North-East due to security challenges.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has alerted to a recent emergence and spread of new strains of vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) in southern Nigeria and, especially Lagos.

Executive director of the National Primary Healthcare Development Agency (NPHCDA), Dr. Faisal Shuaib, has said that due to the innovative approach deployed to routine immunisation, Nigeria will be declared polio-free in the next six months. “We are now at a point where we are just some six months away from being declared polio-free in Nigeria,”…

Nigeria may be certified polio-free this December when it would have accomplished interruption of Wild Polio Virus (WPV) transmission for over three years...