The authorities should do more to ensure more children are vaccinated Exactly a year after the Africa Regional Certification Commission (ARCC) declared Nigeria free from Wild Polio Virus, there are some disturbing developments. A new variant of the disease has been reported in at least 13 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). The National Primary Healthcare Development Agency (NPHCDA) Executive Director, Dr Faisal Shuaib, had last week, raised the alarm that the country was witnessing an outbreak of Vaccine Derived Poliovirus Type 2 (cVDPV) in Abia, Bayelsa, Borno, Delta, Jigawa, Kano, Kebbi, Lagos, Niger, Rivers, Sokoto, Yobe and Zamfara States as well as in FCT. The implication is that this may draw back the clock of the country’s war against the virus, as well as send thousands of children into preventable paralysis.