Nine polio vaccinators were killed Friday morning in the northern Nigerian city of Kano, a police spokesman told CNN.
The victims, eight women and one man, were working for a government program established to vaccinate people across Nigeria. The killings are under investigation; police said they have no suspects.
According to the World Health Organization, Nigeria is one of only three countries in the world that have never stopped transmission of polio, along with Pakistan and Afghanistan.
No, that isn't the reason: they are the 'Talibans' of Nigeria, seeking to reverse whatever progress the country has made, in terms of civilisation, back to stone age. You must have read of 'Boko Haram" islamists.
Very unfortunate incidence,polio must b eradicated from whole World.
You are both right. It is the Nigerian Taliban who believe the polio vaccination is really a western plot to sterilize them all.
Who is going to be the first to somehow blame this on Israel or the US?
Easy – the US used vaccinations as a pretense to get DNA of the people living in Bin Laden's hideout.
Killing of aid workers routinely happens in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. And now it is happening in in Nigeria where the majority of people follow Islam. Let's think very hard who can possibly be responsible for killing aid workers.
Islamists have no mercy even for kids who may suffer from a horrible disease like Polio without the vaccine.
Islamic Jihad strikes again.
This time in Nigeria on aid workers.
Jesus Saves.
It is still not too late Abu.