…Ododo targets discount of malaria prevalence to beneath 2%
By Rotimi Odofin
The Kogi State Government is ready to distribute greater than 3.7 million Long-Lasting Insecticidal Nets (LLINs) freed from cost to households throughout the 21 Local Government Areas of the state as a part of renewed efforts to cut back malaria prevalence and strengthen illness prevention.
The distribution train, scheduled for official flag-off on Saturday, November 7, 2026, will see the deployment of roughly 3.8 million mosquito nets, packaged in 76,000 bales, with every bale containing 50 nets, to communities throughout the state.
The Coordinating Commissioner for Health, Dr. Abdulazeez Adams Adeiza, disclosed this on Monday, November 2, throughout an inspection of the consignment on the warehouse in Lokoja, the place the nets are being ready for transportation to the assorted native authorities areas.
The intervention is geared toward making certain that households throughout Kogi State have entry to the important malaria prevention commodity, significantly susceptible populations, together with kids below 5 and pregnant girls.
The state authorities mentioned the mass distribution was a part of its sustained funding in malaria prevention and management, constructing on latest progress in decreasing the burden of the illness.
Recall that the Kogi State Government had earlier introduced that malaria prevalence amongst kids below 5 declined considerably from 16 per cent in 2021 to 8.9 per cent in 2025, in accordance to a latest examine.
The authorities attributed the development to sustained interventions and the dedication of Governor Ahmed Usman Ododo’s administration to strengthening healthcare supply, increasing preventive companies and enhancing entry to important well being commodities.
Governor Ododo urged residents to take possession of the intervention by making certain that the nets are correctly used and maintained to defend their households towards mosquito bites and malaria an infection.
He emphasised that the success of the train would rely not solely on the distribution of the nets but in addition on their constant use by households throughout the state.
The governor reaffirmed his administration’s willpower to cut back malaria prevalence in Kogi State to beneath two per cent whereas making certain high quality, accessible, reasonably priced and obtainable healthcare companies for residents.
The state authorities additionally expressed appreciation to the Malaria Consortium, the Federal Ministry of Health and different well being growth companions for his or her technical and operational assist in direction of decreasing malaria transmission and advancing the objective of malaria elimination in Nigeria.
Those who accompanied the Coordinating Commissioner in the course of the warehouse inspection included the Director of Public Health, Dr. Akpa; State Malaria Elimination Programme Officer, Dr. Ake; Team Lead of the Kogi State Logistics Management Coordinating Unit, Pharmacist Rose; and members of the administration crew of the Malaria Consortium.
The authorities referred to as on residents, group leaders and different stakeholders to assist the distribution train and be sure that the mosquito nets attain their meant beneficiaries.
