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Basketball star Ade Adepitan talks to Breakfast about raising awareness of polio.

He's now using that fame to raise awareness of polio, having survived it as a child. He's gone back to Nigeria, where he was born, to find out why the disease is still so prevalent there.

25 years after the launch of the ambitious global health campaigns to eradicate the virus, Ade investigates why the vast majority of new cases are in Nigeria - one of the richest and most vibrant countries in Africa.

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