“Nigeria is paving the way for a polio-free Africa,” according to John Vertefeuille, team lead for Nigeria at the Centers for Disease Control.

With the World Health Organization reporting no cases of polio in Nigeria since July 24, 2014 and the last in Africa reported in August, Vertefeuille’s enthusiasm is well-founded.

The infrastructure that supports polio immunizations was used early in the West African Ebola epidemic to stop its spread in Nigeria, Vertefeueille notes. “The recent Ebola outbreak in Nigeria was successfully interrupted in part because the polio eradication response infrastructure was used; in particular, members of the Nigeria Polio Emergency Operations Center were deployed to coordinate the multi-agency Ebola response.”

Vertefeueille adds cautiously, “Final steps toward polio eradication in Nigeria will require continued national program innovations and strategies to improve polio vaccine coverage for underserved and hard-to-reach communities.”

On Friday, January 9, 2015 at 5:00 Eastern, Vertefeueille will join me for a live discussion about ending polio in Africa once and for all. Tune in here then to watch the interview live.

IGBOSON1:
I'd like to see how well OBJ would have coped if these spawn of satan had decided to make his own 8 years ungovernable, and he had to contend with saboteurs from within! When you have to divert the equivalent of billions of dollars in each yearly budget since 2010 to fighting terrorism.....something has to give someplace else!

jars9:
Propaganda

Timbuktou:
It would take a special type of reetard to cast a vote for Jonadunce

dodoniyi:
PDP PAID NAIRALAND MODERATORS WILL NEVER THIS KIND OF TOPIC TO GET TO THE FRONT PAGE... Kamari!!!

NAIRAPDP

PDPLAND

bilms:
see

Timbuktou:
It would take a special type of reetard to cast a vote for Jonadunce

100Cents:


How many will understand your diagram ?

Let it be known that GEJ invested in infrastructure more than OBJ. We can see the trains. We can see the factories. We can see agriculture. We can see youth empowerment. YOUWin. We can see stability in fuel supplies at the stations. We can see new military equipment.

mrmetoo1:


Yeah right!! You think they didn't try OBJ?? OBJ would have crushed them a long time ago. Obj's pride wouldn't have allowed other people run the country alongside him the way GEJ is allowing Boko Haram run the NE. GEJ is just incapable, he should have nipped it in the bud from the start. They went from pests to monsters. Now you guys are crying that it's because they don't like him. Whenever anybody is in a position of power anywhere in the world, he'll always have people that'll want to take the power from him, that'll never change and it didn't start with GEJ. He needs to grow a pair and do what it takes to crush these evil animals.

bilms:



The diagram is for intellectuals not for everybody....All those things you mentioned only exist in name...They are not adding any value to life