Few months after, 21- Year Old 100-level Undergraduate of University of Benin, UNIBEN, Miss Uwaila Omozua was attacked, raped and killed with a fire extinguisher cylinder at the Church Auditorium of The Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, Edo Province 10, Ikpoba Hill, Benin, the Police has cracked the case.
Uwa was murdered in a most gruesome manner on Wednesday, May 27, 2020 where she had gone to read.
Her death generated a lot of uproar, with Human Rights Group across the country, demanding Justice for the deceased.
On Wednesday, the Edo State Commissioner of Police, Johnson Kokumo, paraded six persons suspected to be involved in the murder of Uwaila.
One of the suspects Collins Uligbe, from Agbor in Ika North East Local Government Area of Delta State, disclosed while being paraded that his landlady, Mrs Mary Ade, gave them one million Naira, to kill the undergraduate.
Collins who said he attends the same church the student attended, said that he was asked by the landlady to wipe Uwaila’s private part with an handkerchief so that she could use it for ritual purposes and prosper in her business.
However, the landlady denied the allegation, saying she neither gave him the money nor asked him to wipe the lady’s private part.
Commissioner Kokumo gave the names of the other suspected killers as Nelson Ogbebor, Tina Samuel, Valentine Akato and Nosa Osabohien.
According to him, the postmortem results confirmed that the said victim was raped before she was murdered.
He assured the people of Edo State that the police will leave no stone unturned to unravel the mystery behind the killing.
One year after the Akanu Ibiam International Airport, Enugu, was shut to enable the Federal government affect a reconstruction work on the runway the airport will be re-opened on August 30.
The government had fixed last April for the reopening, but the advent of the Coronavirus pandemic forestalled it.
This time, the Minister of Aviation is relocating to Enugu to personally monitor the final phases of the work. This is a repeat of the same protocol he followed when the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport Abuja was being renovated. He relocated to Kaduna, the alternate Airport to make sure traffic went on smoothly.
The Director, Public Affairs, Ministry of Aviation, James Odaudu, in a press statement, said that this is to monitor the finishing touches being carried out by the contractors handling the runway reconstruction and installation of facilities at the airport.
Many Nigerians had taken up skepticism in reaction to the reopening of the airport, citing alleged deliberate marginalization of the south east by the current government. They alleged that the federal government was paying lip service to the reopening, as reports filtered in that FG closed down the airport before awarding the contract, resulting in many weeks of waste, before equipment was mobilized to site.
There was further apprehension when, recently, an individual pulled down two kilometers of the perimeter fence of the airport claiming that it encroached on his private property. The Minister immediately jetted to Enugu, and the Governor of Enugu State, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, took drastic action by demolishing the man’s property close to the airport.
The Minister, however, assured that government is doing everything possible to ensure that the people of the South East region begins to enjoy flight operations at the airport from soon.
He commended the South-east Governors, particularly, Governor Ugwuanyi, for their efforts in supporting the Ministry of Aviation to ensure the successful return of activities at the airport.
Against all odds, former Minister of Agriculture, Akinwunmi Adesina, under President Goodluck Jonathan, has been re-elected as the President of African Development Bank, AFDB.
Adesina has been enmeshed in series of upheavals that were targeted at thwarting his Reelection bid, but he prevailed..
Adesina was re-elected by the Board of Governors of the Bank at the ongoing AfDB’s virtual annual meeting in Abidjan on Thursday.
President Muhammadu Buhari, through his Personal Assistant on Social Media, Lauretta Onochie confirmed the development while congratulating Adesina on her Twitter page.
Onochie wrote, “Our very own Akinwumi Akin Adesina has been reaffirmed as the President of the African Development Bank.
“Thank you to our supportive President @MBuhari who mobilized support for our own Adesina and why not! Adesina has been proven to be above boards.”It was reported that an Independent Review Panel exonerated Akinwumi Adesina, of any ethical wrongdoings.”
FLASH!
Our very own Akinwumi Akin Adesina has been reaffirmed as the President of the African Development Bank.
Thank you to our supportive President @MBuhari who mobilised support for our own Adesina and why not! Adesina has been proven to be above board
It has been sensationally revealed that the APC candidate in the Edo 2016 Governorship Election did not win.
The result was manipulated, for him to be declared the winner, and sworn into office, thus robbing the PDP of its victory.
Kassim Afegbua, a supporter of the APC candidate, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, made the earth-shaking revelation Wednesday, on an AIT morning programme, Khakaki.
The candidate of the APC, then, was Godwin Obaseki, the incumbent Governor of Edo State, who is now, the Governorship candidate of the PDP in the September, 19, 2020 Governorship election.
In 2016, Ize-Iyamu was the Governorship candidate of the PDP, and, even though he insisted he won the election, both the INEC, and the Courts declared Obaseki the winner.
Now, Afegbua, has confirmed Ize-Iyamu’s persistent claims at the time that the APC stole his mandate.
Afegbua was the Commissioner for Information at the time of the alleged electoral heist that denied the PDP victory under the Governorship of Adams Oshiomhole.
Afegbua later quit the APC and declared for the PDP. He was one of the spokespersons of the PDP Presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar in the 2019 Presidential election.
But a couple of months ago, while still in the party, he dramatically began to vehemently support the candidacy of Ize-Iyamu, in protest that the PDP gave its ticket to Obaseki and Deputy Governor Philip Shaibu.
The PDP has suspended him.
Speaking against Obaseki on Wednesday, Afegbua said that most of them were against his candidacy in 2016, but that he was imposed on them by Oshiomhole,who did everything to make him win, including, as he revealed now, stealing PDP’s victory.
Asked for details, Afegbua said they would be in a book he is writing.
The Academic Staff Union of University, ASUU the flagship body of university lecturers in Nigeria no longer enjoys the camaraderie it once enjoyed in the nation’s ivory towers, following the call of the Congress of University Academics, CONUA on the federal government to re-open the universities.
The federal government had last March shut down universities as part of efforts to contain the spread of COVID 19.
Angry students and parents have since asked the Buhari administration to re-open the schools so that they can resume normal academic work as the novel virus seems to be drawing down across the country.
Owners of private universities have also appealed to the government to remove the lock on universities, insisting that they have already complied with all COVID 19 safety protocols.
But ASUU said it’s too early to throw the nation’s ivory towers open for students to go back to classrooms, citing different reasons, including the safety of its members and students.
CONUA disagreed, comprising lecturers from across the nation’s universities said on Wednesday, after its National Executive Meeting, NEC in Abuja, that the government should throw the universities open for students to go back for lectures.
The breakaway group also accused ASUU of intimidating their members who are ready to go back to work.
According to a statement, signed by CONUA’s National Coordinator, Niyi Sunmonu, titled ‘Stop intimidation of CONUA members,’ the lecturers told the federal government to re-open universities as soon as possible.
CONUA said “The meeting called on the government to reopen universities as soon as possible as CONUA members are ready to resume work.
It however added that everything necessary in terms of COVID-19 protocols must be put in place before reopening the universities in order to prevent students and staff from contracting the disease.”
The group further stated that COVID 19 is like any other ailment that has come to stay and it should not be the reason to put the nations’ education on hold.
It stated that the “ education sector cannot continue to stagnate, as it appears that COVID-19 would continue to be a threat and we must, in the circumstance, learn to strive to lead our normal life.
Union thus urged the government to make available everything that can help our universities to resume work as is being done elsewhere in the world.”
The group warned that it will resist any attempt to intimidate any of its members ready to go back to work.
CONUA said “While saluting those university administrations which held meetings to promote academic staff members during the COVID-19 lockdown, the Union condemned in strong terms those administrations who failed to organise such exercises, despite that several academic staff have been waiting for their promotions for a long time, with some spanning five to ten years.
The Union received information to the effect that some universities held Senate meetings and Congregation elections but refused to convene any meeting to carry out the promotion of its members, simply because some people threatened that such promotions, if ever announced, will be reversed.
CONUA leadership felt outraged by such pronouncements and expressed its resolve to support any efforts by university administrations to facilitate the due promotion of academic staff members.”
Meanwhile, the minister of state for Education, Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba has appealed to Nigeria students to be calm as the government is already consulting with stakeholders on how to re-open schools across the country.
The minister disclosed this during the daily briefing of the Presidential Task Force, PTF on COVID 19 held on Wednesday in Abuja, the nation’s capital.
Mali is gradually becoming a pariah among the international community.
Barely a week after the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, and the African Union, AU, suspended Mali, the International Francophone Organization has done the same.
The International community increased pressure on the military junta that has seized power in Mali, as the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie suspended the nation from its membership Tuesday.
Its leadership agreed on the move at an extraordinary session held via videoconference, while adding that it would maintain any cooperation that would help the civilian population and a transition to democracy.
The decision came a day after envoys from the West African bloc ECOWAS and the new military rulers said they had failed to agree on a timetable to return Mali to democratic rule.
The OIF also called for the liberation of the ousted president Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, who stepped down from power last week after the military revolt, saying he wanted to avoid bloodshed.
They, also, called for the establishment, as soon as possible, of “a transition government led by an civilian authority”. The OIF said it would be sending a high-delegation to Mali in the coming days.
The international community had already condemned the August 18 coup and ECOWAS has suspended Mali from its ranks.
ECOWAS has, so far, taken the lead in trying to negotiate a timetable for a return to civilian rule with the country’s new military leaders.
But both sides said Monday they had failed to reach agreement — and also that Keita no longer wanted to be restored to power, which had been one of the initial demands made by ECOWAS.
Keita was elected in 2013 after running a campaign in which he pitched himself as a unifying force in a fractured country.
He was re-elected for a second term in 2018 but failed to make headway against the jihadists, and the ethnic unrest they ignited in the centre of the country further damaged an already sickly economy.
An outcry over the results of long-delayed legislative elections in April cemented his unpopular reputation, and in June a protest movement was born aimed at forcing him to resign.
Do you know it is possible to be in Nigeria and also be in “Europe” at the same time?
And wait for this: Do know you can also be enveloped in the “cloud” without being the Biblical Peter who, lost in the maze of strange ecclesiastical awe and spiritual splendour, made an impromptu request to Jesus: “Master, it is good that we are here. Let us make three tents, one for you and one for Moses and one for Elijah”?
Welcome to Cross River’s “Europe”
In deed, the Europe and cloud analogies are no jigsaws. They are no farce. As the popular Nigerian cliches go, seeing is believing, and a trial will convince you.
These are realities that confront you at Cross River’s Obudu Cattle Ranch, or as it is now known, Obudu Mountain Resort, located in Obanliku local government area, in the Northern part of the state.
The ranch and its host communities are a shouting distance from the Central African country of the Republic of Cameroon.
The Devil’s Elbow
As you arrive Utanga community which is at the feet of the 1,700 feet above sea level undulating mountains on which top the Obudu Cattle Ranch sits, about 25 minutes of spine- chilling gliding drive to the summit, which surprisingly is a flat, table land, separates you from getting enveloped by “Europe” and the “cloud”.
Driving up to the resort can be quite exhilarating, especially the last ten kilometres of winding road with its 22 bends, including the famous Devil’s Elbow halfway along.This magazine was told that that particular spot was nick-named Devil’s Elbow because of it’s scary, dangerous bend.
Interestingly, the Devil’s Elbow has now been renamed the Angel’s Elbow.
In the Ranch, Dew, Cold and Cloud Could “Arrest You”
At the top of the height is a vast and lush table land. At the top of the heights, massive, cold and dew clouds would descend on you in a manner that makes you think you are vacationing somewhere in Europe.
Indeed, with a freezing temperature that oscillates between 11oc, 13oc and 15oc, depending on the mood of nature, what you experience is akin to a severe winter in most parts of Europe.
And woe betide you if you are a first time visitor and not properly kitted with winter coat.
This minute, frozen dew “rain” on you as if in the heart of snow- capped streets and cities of Europe, and the next minute you are completely enveloped by chilly cloud that allows no visibility.
Infact, the zero visibility when the cloud and dew descend, is such that you are “blinded” from catching the faintest glimpse of someone five metres away from you.
Cross River’s Obudu Cattle Ranch
In the chalets, heaters are stand- by to ward off the severe cold.
And if you think you are a “hard man” and decides to brave the cold and then turn on the cold water button and allow yourself the audacity of a cold bath, you could instantly find yourself in a freezing point, a free invitation for wholesale pneumonia into your lungs.
Mini- fridges in the chalets practically serves you no purpose as drinks do not need to get into them before getting chilled: Just leave them on the table and within minutes, you have with you, chilled drinks!
A Tourism Hub
A visit to the Ranch tells a sordid story of a country that doesn’t know what to do with, or how to harness its other nature- given gifts, but only tragically stick to crude oil.
Evidently, with its exquisite facilities wasting away, the Obudu Cattle Ranch is an unutilized, under used and neglected foreign exchange spinner.
Tourism sector experts opine that the Resort is Africa’s number one tourism hub, and has the potential of out classing similar ones in Europe, if properly put into use.
They however, aver that what is needed is the reactivation of some of its dormant and rustic facilities and aggressive international marketing campaign to project it as a global tourism phenomena.
The Ranch boasts of such world class facilities as a world class convention centre, Presidential lodge, honey factory, water park, fully equipped gym and two flood-lit tennis courts.
Others are Canopy walkway, natural swimming pool, modernised traditional villas, a 9-hole golf course, the longest cable car in the world, among others.
The gondola cable car gives visitors a natural view as it by-passes the winding road to the top.
And Cross River State Government Thinks Ranch
The state governor, Professor Ben Ayade, says he is committed to breathing life back to the awesome resort.
Already, the cable car that lift tourists from the mountain feet at Utanga to the Resort which had broken down is being fixed.
Before now, the Bebi Airstrip situated close the Resort provided aviation services to tourists visiting the facility from outside the state and from Calabar, the state capital, but the navigational problems pilots face landing at the Airstrip due to its proximity to the mountains, has made such services epileptic.
With about 20,156 km² land mass, Cross River is one of the biggest states in Nigeria. In fact, its size is almost the entire southeast states put together.
Therefore, to access the Ranch from Calabar, a gruelling six- seven hours drive, equivalent of a trip from Onitsha to Lagos, awaits such tourists.
Cross River’s Obudu Cattle Ranch
However, to solve this problem, the Cross River state government, under Ayade, is currently constructing a cargo and passenger international Airport in Obudu to feed the Ranch.
Ayade: “The intention of this airport is to provide cargo support services and export of ornamental and special flowers from the Obudu Cattle Ranch. As you are well aware, a country like Kenya does average of 39 million Euros annually exporting flower from an altitude even less than that of Obudu cattle ranch.
“So, for Cross River State, we need to have an airport here to be able to assist us take advantage of the Obudu cattle ranch. More so, Obudu Cattle Ranch is a beautiful place of nature which has been heavily under-utilised because of access. So we are building an airport that can allow us benefit from the full potentials of the ranch.”
Let a Foreign Firm or Federal Government Take over the Ranch; it’s a Potential Foreign Exchange Spinner
According to a tourism expert, one of the ways the Obudu Cattle Ranch can effectively function and flourish, thereby compete favourably with similar resorts in Europe, is for it to either be completely given out to a foreign tourism firm to manage, or to be taken over by the federal government and treated as a national asset.
“Let a foreign firm or federal government take over the management of this nature’s gift to our country.Obudu Mountain Resort is a potential foreign exchange spinner”, he said.
Stalled by Ethnic Politics?
This magazine was informed that at the twilight of the GoodLuck Jonathan administration, the process of taking over the Obudu Cattle Ranch by the federal government was on the verge of completion before it was ethno-politicised, thus stalling the move.
The North was said to have insisted that the federal government, under Jonathan must also take over the Mambilla Pleatue in Taraba state, and develop it to the standard of Obudu Ranch.
According to sources, the issue was never resolved before the former President lost the 2015 presidential election and left office.
When Squalor Stares at Opulence
Anape, Kegol, Kejikwu, Okwumo, Apahajile, keyi, Bechevbe among others are the host communities of the Ranch. What this means is that the communities, like the Ranch, are on the mountains and their inhabitants are mountain dwellers.
But this is where the comparison ends.
The opulence and splendour of the Ranch pathetically contrast with the squalid setting of the communities; yet, the tourist facility is just few metres away.
Poverty evidently walks on all fours in the host communities and this manifests boldly in the sagged bodies and sunken eyes of some of the inhabitants.
“We are suffering here, life here is difficult but there is nothing we can do.We are only praying and hoping that one day, life will be better.The Ranch is our own oil bloc.We engage in little economic activities whenever there are activities at the Ranch”, Alfred, 42, told The Source.
The Good News
Respite is, however, coming the way of the Ranch host communities soon.The good news is that Professor Ayade is appalled by the nuseauting poverty pervading the communities and has pledged to end the grim situation.
Ayade: Breathing life back to the Ranch.
On a visit to the host communities recently, the governor said:”We are here at the Ranch and when you look to the left and right, what you see in the entire place are the aborigines, the original owners of Obudu Cattle Ranch.
“They are relegated to the worst form of human existence; reduced to want, in body, in spirit, in soul and in the most sub-human living conditions with collapsing roofs and huge massive temperatures that run your blood chill and your bones cold.”
“I decided to take a guided tour to spend one week with the people to feel their pulse as we prepare to make the Ranch the most attractive centre for visits in Nigeria. I want to see how the citizens, the aborigines have been living side by side with the glaring reality of the luxury of the ranch resort.”
“It is a shame that where I live in the Rranch which is the presidential Villa is as if am in Europe, and just a few minutes walk from there, this is what you find. The contrast is unacceptable to my conscience because I have a background akin to these people, and so I understand the feeling. I understand the pain.”
Bemoaning the high level of deprivations being experienced by the people, the governor said: “As I see this, my heart bleeds that I have failed to be sensitive to the people who need government most. And so, my government is committed to constructing social housing to change their course and prove to them that God uses humans as a messiah.
“For us as a state, we are committed to exterminating this kind of extreme poverty”.
A Ranch and Its Enthralling History
Obudu Cattle Ranch was developed in 1951 by Mr M. McCaughley, a Scot who first explored the mountain ranges in 1949. He camped on the mountain-top of the Oshie Ridge on the Sankwala Mountains for a month before returning with Mr. Hugh Jones, a fellow rancher, in 1951.
Together with Dr Crawfeild, they developed the Obudu Cattle Ranch.
The Obudu Plateau is spread over an area of more than 40 square miles (100 km2), and rises to about 5,200 ft (1,584 metres) above sea level.The plateau is a giant mass in its own right, and its peak reaches a height of about 1,716 metres (5,630 ft) above sea level. The plateau is known to be a habitat of rare species of birds.
The resort is close to the Cameroon border, just about 45 km to the Central African country.
Since 2005, a cable car climbing 870 metres (2,850 ft) from the base to the top of the plateau gives visitors a scenic view while bypassing the extremely winding road to the top.
The hilltop is about 11 km of winding road from the base. Driving up takes about 25 minutes while using the cable car takes about sjx minutes.
Investigators are still trying to find out what led to the fire incident that occurred at the Access Bank Plc, Adetokunbo Ademola Branch on the Lagos Island, this morning.
The Herbert Wigwe led bank, had this morning announced on its official twitter handle that the incident was caused by and that the bank’s first emergency responders are doing everything possible to put the situation under control.
The fuel lading truck and a car was destroyed in the inferno including huge office equipment worth millions of naira.
“There has been a fire incident at our Adetokunbo Ademola branch this morning. Thankfully no one was hurt. Our fire protocol has been activated and all personnel have been moved to safety. Cause of the fire was a diesel truck discharging fuel, we advise you to avoid the area,” the bank said.
Wigwe: Access Bank MD
Confirming the incident, the General Manager, LASEMA, Olufemi Oke-Osanyintolu, said, “On arrival at the incident scene, it was observed that a fully loaded 33,000 litres diesel tanker with number plate AKD 637 XP and a car stationed beside it with number plate AKD 234 FA were completely ravaged by the fire.
“Investigation conducted at the scene revealed that the tanker was dispensing diesel for the uses of generators in the bank premises and inadvertently caught fire.
“A combined intervention of the emergency responders, LASEMA Response Team, Eko Hotel, LASG fire, UBA Fire Service, and Federal Fire are able to arrest the fire and stop it from escalating to further the building in the premises.”
Religious leaders have frowned at the recently amended Companies and Allied Matters Act, CAMA, by the government.
Primate Babatunde Elijah Ayodele, founder of INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church is not an exception, has vowed to wage war on anyone that wants to take over his church.
Speaking during the public launch of his new book titled: Warning to the Nations, the fiery preacher noted that he built the Church with his labour for many years.
He said: “They have not born that person, nobody, are you the one who bought the land, built the building, the Church that I used my money to finance, my sweat, they can’t try it oo, in my own Church.
“I pound my hand on my chest and I’m saying it with confidence.
“May be you’re the one they call, you will tell me. When all my investment, all my life, my soul, my energy, my blood is in the church, ah, forget CAMA.
“May be churches that are very rich, they can go and CAMA them, nobody can CAMA my church for me oo, nobody, no president, no governor, come and try, come and try it, let them come and take over nah.”
Bishop David Oyedepo, founder of the Living Faith Church, Popularly known as Winners Chapel, has also promised to fight such law, which he claim is ungodly.
The Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, also frowned at the law, saying it is mainly targeted at Churches and politically motivated.
Nigeria has a cause to rejoice as the World Health Organization, WHO, has certified the Nation Polio free, as it also declared the African continent.
The certification comes four years after the last cases appeared in North- East Nigeria.
In celebrating it, President Muhammadu Buhari exhuded: “We will defeat COVID as we deafeated Polio”.
In announcing it, WHO said: “Thanks to the relentless efforts by governments, donors, frontline health workers and communities, up to 1.8 million children have been saved from the crippling life-long paralysis.”
The official announcement is due at 1500 GMT in a videoconference with WHO Director-General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, and key figures including philanthropist and Microsoft founder Bill Gates.
“Happiness is an understatement. We’ve been on this marathon for over 30 years,” said Tunji Funsho, a Nigerian doctor and local anti-polio coordinator for Rotary International.
He said it marked a crucial step in the total eradication of the illness at the global level.
“It’s a real achievement, I feel joy and relief at the same time,” he added.
Poliomyelitis, or “wild polio” is an acutely infectious and contagious disease which attacks the spinal cord and causes irreversible paralysis in children.
It was endemic around the world until a vaccine was found in the 1950s, though this remained out of reach for many poorer countries in Asia and Africa.
As late as 1988, the WHO counted 350,000 cases globally, and in 1996 said there were more than 70,000 cases in Africa alone.
Thanks to a rare instance of collective global effort and financial backing — some $19 billion over 30 years — only Afghanistan and Pakistan have recorded cases this year: 87 in total.
Nigeria, a country with 200 million inhabitants, was still among the trouble-spots in the early 2000s.
“In northern Nigeria, authorities were forced to stop vaccination campaigns in 2003 and 2004 by Islamic extremists who claimed it was a vast conspiracy to sterilise young Muslims.
“It took a huge effort in tandem with traditional chiefs and religious leaders to convince populations that the vaccine was safe.
“People trust their local traditional leaders who live with them more than the political leaders,” said Grema Mundube, a community leader in the town of Monguno, in the far north of Nigeria.
“Once we spoke to them and they saw us immunising our children they gradually accepted the vaccine,” he told AFP.
“However, the emergence of violent Islamist group Boko Haram in 2009 caused another rupture in the programme. In 2016, four new cases were discovered in Borno state in the northeast in the heart of the conflict.
“At the time, we couldn’t reach two-thirds of the children of Borno state — 400,000 children couldn’t access the vaccine,” said Dr Funsho.
“The security situation remains highly volatile in the region, with the Boko Haram and a local Islamic State affiliate controlling vast areas around Lake Chad and the border with Niger.
“International agencies, local governments, donors — all partners took the bull by the horns to find new strategies to manage to reach these children,” said Dr Musa Idowu Audu, coordinator for the WHO in Borno.
In these “partially accessible” areas, vaccination teams worked under the protection of the Nigerian army and local self-defence militias.
“For areas fully controlled by the jihadists, the WHO and its partners sought to intercept people coming in and out along market and transport routes in a bid to spread medical information and recruit “health informants” who could tell them about any polio cases.
“We built a pact of trust with these populations, for instance by giving them free medical supplies,” said Dr Audu.
“Today, it is estimated that only 30,000 children are still “inaccessible”: a number considered too low by scientists to allow for an epidemic to break out.
Despite the “extreme happiness and pride” felt by Dr Audu, he never fails to remember the 20 or more medical staff and volunteers killed for the cause in northeast Nigeria in recent years.
“The challenge now is to ensure that no new polio cases arrive from Afghanistan or Pakistan and that vaccinations continue to ensure that children across the continent are protected from this vicious disease.
“Before we couldn’t sleep at all. Now we will sleep with one eye open,” said Dr Funsho.
