Yobe State records new polio cases, flags off vaccination campaign Three years after Yobe State was declared free from poliomyelitis, the state has once again recorded four new cases of the disease, spread across three local government areas—Bursari, Machina, and Yusufari. Dr. Babagana Kundi-Machina, the Executive Secretary of the Yobe State Primary Healthcare Management Board, made this known during a polio vaccination campaign in Dole Machina, a community located just five kilometres from the Niger Republic border. Dole Machina recently reported two out of the four confirmed cases. “It’s unfortunate that after...