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August 24, 2019
VicePresident Yemi Osinbajo and former US Ambassador to the UN, Andrew Young, metto discuss ways to sustain the fight against the Wide Polio Virus, WPV inNigeria.
Young, whocame under the aegis of Emeka Offor Foundation, was accompanied by Offor, a Nigerianbusinessman, whose foundation also worked to eradicate the WPV in Nigeria.
Speaking toState House correspondents after the meeting, Young said that the struggle toeradicate polio had been going on for seventy years and that it would soon beachieved.
He said thatOffor had taken the lead in making the final steps in stemming the spread ofthe virus in Nigeria.
Young saidthat Osinbajo informed them at the meeting of Nigeria’s free education forevery Nigerian up to the 9th grade, which he described as a revolution.
On his part,Offor expressed delight that Nigeria had not had any case of WPV in threeyears, adding that the effort must be sustained until the virus was eradicatedin the world. He said that they looked forward to WHO certification which wouldcome in March 2020.