KANO, Nigeria (AP) - A heavily Muslim northern state in Nigeria abandoned its eight-month moratorium on polio vaccinations, declaring that samples of newly imported vaccines were "found safe," a state spokesman said Thursday.
Lambo said Kano's decision to drop the boycott would be followed by a massive nationwide immunization effort aimed at halting the disease's spread by the end of the year.
Kano's decision to return to the immunization campaign is "one of the most significant developments" in the polio eradication effort, said Bruce Aylward, Geneva-based coordinator of the U.N. World Health Organization's anti-polo initiative.
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Nigeria borders Republic of Benin to the west, Chad and Cameroon in the east, Niger in the north and the Gulf of Guinea in the south.
Bauchi State is a state in northern Nigeria.
Nigeria is divided roughly in three by the rivers Niger and Benue, which flow through the country from north-east and north-west to meet roughly in the centre of the country near the new capital city of Abuja.
Kano is the major industrial center of N Nigeria; peanut flour and oil, cotton textiles, steel furniture, processed meat, concrete blocks, shoes, and soap are the chief manufactures.
Kano reached the height of its power in the 17th and 18th cent.
In Kano are Abdullahi Bayero College (1960; part of Ahmadu Bello Univ., Zaria); Gidan Makama Museum, with examples of local art; and the palace of the emir, the former ruler of the Kano city-state.
Kano first became known to the outside world after the visit of Leo Africanus in A.D. Tradition has it that the earliest settlers found in the area were the Abagayawa whose ancestor called Kano was said to have migrated from Gaya in the vicinity of Kano town in search of iron-stone and charcoal.
Kano is known today as the most irrigated state in the country with more than 3 million hectares of cultivable land.
Kano, Nigeria: 2 October 2004 - The Executive Governor of KanoState, Nigeria, Mallam Ibrahim Shekarau has reiterated that the Oral Polio Vaccine (OPV) is safe for consumption by children.
Kanostate suspended immunization for polio eradication for about a year following allegations spearheaded by some Moslem clerics that OPV contained substances likely to cause infertility in females.
Governor Shekarau added that the state recorded tremendous success in the two rounds as 2.1 million and 2.5 million children respectively were immunized.
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KanoState was first created under this name on May 27, 1967, when Nigeria assumed the twelve states structure.
Administrative Areas: With Kano as capital, the state is divided into fortytour local government areas which form twentytour federal constituencies and three senatorial districts.
KanoState is divided into twentytour federal constituencies and three senatorial districts.
Kano is the fourth and largest Nigerian state to adopt Sharia - which includes punishments such as amputation and flogging - and other states are likely to follow.
Kano is the fourth state to adopt Sharia
The KanoState government said last week it was implementing Sharia law in response to the demands of the people of the state.
At this occasion, we will honor one of our Kano Online members and prizes will be given to the KanoOnline Poetry contest winners, but most of all it is an opportunity of KanoOnline.com members and friends of KanoOnline.com to meet one another.
emir of Kano Alu, was away to Sokoto when Kano was occupied; he was captured, dethroned and exiled to Lokoja where he died in 1926.
Today, because of Jigawa State being carved out of KanoState, the population is 5.6 Million (1991 Census), cover an area of 20,760 Sq.
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United States president Franklin D. Roosevelt contracted polio in 1921 and was paralyzed from the waist down as a result.
In the Kano province in Northern Nigeria, which operates under Sharia (Muslim religious law), the immunisation campaign was suspended in September 2003 when prominent Muslim leaders said they suspected that vaccines supplied by Western donors were adulterated to reduce fertility and spread HIV as part of a US-led drive against Islam.
In addition to the rumors of sterility and the ban by Nigeria'sKanostate, civil war and internal strife in the countries of Sudan and Ivory Coast have complicated WHO's polio eradication goal.
Throughout their history the family served military masters, and the lofty and moral symbolism of the Kano...
It was traditionally founded by Kano, a flsmith of the Gaya tribe who in ancient times came to Dalla Hill in the locality in search of iron.
The discovery of stone tools indicates prehistoric settlement of the site, which was selected for the capital of the Hausa state of Kano in the reign...
The country is now united in the fight against polio and has the unique opportunity to spare future generations from this crippling disease.
This is a great opportunity to protect every child in Nigeria against polio and stop the virus for good,” said UNICEF Executive Director Carol Bellamy.
Das gesamte Parlament von KanoState wird auf die Wahlen 2007 vorbereitet.
Die gesamten Parlamente unserer Schwerpunktstaaten Cross River, Kano und Plateau werden samt der Spitzen der Parlamentsverwaltungen in mehrtaegigen Klausurtagungen ueber das neue Wahlgesetz, sozio-oekonomische Probleme ihrer Staaten sowie praktische Fragen wie Oeffentlichkeitsarbeit und Konfliktpraevention im Vorfeld der Wahlen informiert.
Diese Klausur fuer KanoState House of Assembly ist die zweite einer dreiteiligen Reihe.
Advocacy, networking and awareness-raising activities are also being carried out by project staff at both State and local government level as well as with traditional community leaders and local communities who have given their full support to the project.
In addition to advocacy and awareness raising activities, two VVF Centres (one in Kano and one in Jigawa) are currently in operation providing surgical repair and rehabilitation services to women suffering from VVF.
By empowering women with skills and knowledge relating to good health as well as to economic development and civil and political rights, FORWARD ensures that clients who have undergone operations return to their communities with improved chances of a better quality of life.
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Scholars are reflecting on the full implications of these confessions for understanding the AIDS pandemic in South Africa and the former frontline states.
Dr Haruna Kaita of the Department of Pharmaceuticals, Ahmadu Bello University, Nigeria commented on the contaminants identified in the WHO sponsored Oral Polio Vaccines of February 2004 in the Weekly Trust, Kaduna, Nigeria.
For an interview of Dr. Tijjani Namiye, the Advisor to the Governor of KanoState, Nigeria, on this incident,see
KanoState, Nigeria: Report of Rapid Assessment in Selected LGAs (2001)
FHI offers a range of technical services, including clinical and other research, in HIV/AIDS, sexually transmitted infections and other infectious diseases, contraceptive technology, and women’s health.
This detailed report describes risk settings and populations in KanoState, Nigeria, that were assessed to plan for comprehensive HIV/AIDS programming in the state.
