POLIO-FREE A girl receives the oral polio vaccine at a school in the northern Nigerian state of Kaduna. Nigeria recently marked two years without any new cases of the dreaded disease, giving hope that Africa may soon be declared completely free from the virus. PHOTO UNICEF
POLIO-FREE A girl receives the oral polio vaccine at a school in the northern Nigerian state of Kaduna. Nigeria recently marked two years without any new cases of the dreaded disease, giving hope that Africa may soon be declared completely free from the virus. PHOTO UNICEF

LAGOS: Nigeria on Sunday celebrated two years without a new case of polio, in a major stride towards Africa being declared free of the devastating disease.

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