Nigeria, April 28 -- The Emir of Dutse, Hamim Nuhu-Sanusi, has condemned the continuous disinformation on the safety of the polio vaccine in parts of Nigeria.

Mr Nuhu-Sanusi spoke on Sunday when he led a delegation to a polio vaccine-noncompliant community to dispel misinformation about vaccine uptake.

Before administering the first dose of the vaccine to children under five in Jiba, a community on the outskirts of the Jigawa State capital, the traditional ruler said false claims about the vaccine's safety and efficacy, such as the vaccine causing infertility, were baseless propaganda.

Mr Nuhu-Sanusi said the polio vaccine is effective in building the immune system of children under five years of age, adding that his late father admini...