Nigeria: FG Seeks $125 Million Loan From World Bank to Combat Polio

26 August 2016

In its efforts aimed at adequately tackling the fresh outbreak of polio myelitis in Nigeria, the federal government has asked the World Bank to grant it a $125 million loan for provision of enough vaccines against the epidemic and other communicable diseases.

But the government has released the N9.8billion budgeted for that purpose in the 2016 budget for the Ministry of Health.

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