Polio: Nigeria receives $125 million loan from the World Bank

The Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, said the Nigerian Government had obtained a 125-million-dollar loan from the World Bank to tackle fresh cases of polio and other health challenges in the country.

Nigeria celebrates two years without new Polio virus cases

The statement below is by President Muhammadu Buhari on the second anniversary of the interruption of wild Poliovirus transmission in Nigeria. Poliovirus is the causative agent of poliomyelitis (commonly known as polio).