UNICEF: Nigeria has 2.2 million unvaccinated children, highest in Africa
UNICEF says Nigeria has Africa's highest number of children who have never received a single routine vaccine, with 2.2 million zero-dose children. Wafaa Saeed, UNICEF Nigeria Country Representative, announced the figure on April 16, 2026, at the flag-off of the Korea-UNICEF Routine Immunisation investment in Badagry Local Government Area, Lagos State.
She explained that the statistic reflects real children living in fragile urban settlements, border communities, conflict-affected areas and hard-to-reach places where essential services are lacking. The burden, she said, is not a failure of vaccines but of equity, access to-reachieved. The burden, and service reach and rebuild trust The burden, and ensure
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