An unidentified health official administers a polio vaccine to a child in Kawo Kano, Nigeria, Sunday, April. 13, 2014. Nigeria is one of three countries in the world where the wild polio virus remains endemic, and an Islamic uprising in the northeast is halting progress against it as nine women vaccinating children were shot and killed a year ago by Islamic extremists. (AP Photo/ Sunday Alamba )
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has said it is targeting no fewer than 115 million children for polio immunisation in Nigeria and across Africa from Monday, in its continuing bid to wipe out the crippling disease from the continent.
WHO, in a statement on Thursday, said all children under five
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