Nigeria, May 9 -- In February, PREMIUM TIMES exclusively spoke with Chris Elias, the President of the Global Development Division of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Paulin Basinga, the foundation's country director, on the role the foundation played in the eradication of wild polio in Nigeria and a range of other developmental issues.

PT: What role did the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation play in the eradication of polio in Nigeria and what is your assessment of the campaign against polio?

Chris Elias: Finishing the job on polio eradication globally is one of the priorities of Bill and Melinda Foundation - has been really from out start. The Bill and Melinda Foundation has been around for about 20 years. The global effort to ...