{"id":78353,"date":"2025-11-08T05:27:40","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T05:27:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=78353"},"modified":"2025-11-08T05:27:40","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T05:27:40","slug":"fulani-resistance-hampers-kogi-vaccination-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/11\/08\/fulani-resistance-hampers-kogi-vaccination-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Fulani Resistance Hampers Kogi Vaccination Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Sarah Sam Adda<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Some Fulani residents in Kogi State are rejecting the ongoing Measles, Polio, and HPV vaccination campaign, threatening the state\u2019s target coverage.<\/p>\n<p>During a monitoring visit to Kabba\/Bunu Local Government Area, compliance among indigenous residents was high, but Fulani communities resisted the exercise.<\/p>\n<p>Local Immunisation Officer, Atyodele Raphael, said the refusal is hindering efforts to vaccinate 66,000 children, as many women insist on waiting for their husbands\u2019 consent.<\/p>\n<p>He said sensitization efforts are being intensified to boost acceptance before the campaign ends.<\/p>\n<p>Governor Usman Ododo, who launched the statewide campaign in Lokoja, described it as crucial to eradicating vaccine-preventable diseases and protecting girls from cervical cancer.<\/p>\n<p>He urged parents and community leaders to support the free and safe vaccination drive.<\/p>\n<p>The campaign, supported by UNICEF and other partners, targets 1.9 million children aged nine months to 14 years and runs from October 6-15 across the state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sarah Sam Adda Some Fulani residents in Kogi State are rejecting the ongoing Measles, Polio, and HPV vaccination campaign, threatening the state\u2019s target coverage. During a monitoring visit to Kabba\/Bunu Local Government Area, compliance among indigenous residents was high, but Fulani communities resisted the exercise. Local Immunisation Officer, Atyodele Raphael, said the refusal is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":78354,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[184,172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-78353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78353"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78355,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78353\/revisions\/78355"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}