While there are consistent efforts made to rein in polio, a recent report has indicated that a lot still needs to be done. On the same lines, Microsoft founder Bill Gates' foundation joined hands with the richest man in Africa to fight against polio.

Besides Pakistan and Afghanistan, it's Nigeria which still needs a lot for fighting the evil disease. It has been confirmed that as part of the alliance between the two biggies, the Bill and Melinda Gates and Dangote foundations, would be backing all sorts of resources required like equipment and technical support as demanded by the Kano state government.

Hoping that their efforts met the desired results, Jeff Raikes, the head of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, said: eradicating polio "will be Kano's gift to Nigeria and Nigeria's gift to the world".

However, the actual amount the two biggies have extended is not disclosed. It was explained how polio transmitted after the Kano government suspended immunization for 13 months in 2003 and since then, the state has been hit badly by the disease.

If reports from the World Health Organisation are to be believed, out of the 193 cases so far recorded worldwide this year, there were nearly 104 from Nigeria itself. Even in 2011, there were totally 62 cases reported in Nigeria including 17 in Kano.