Abuja  - The European Commission is set to implement a 15.4 million-euro project in support of immunisation of children in Kano State, north-west Nigeria, an EU delegation said Monday.

The project, the EU Support to Routine Immunisation in Kano (SRIK), aims to reduce child mortality due to prevalent diseases like measles and tuberculosis and as well as eradicate polio from Kano State, it said.

The project would last four years, covering July 2007 to July 2010, and be implemented by a team of experts in close collaboration with the Kano State Ministry of Health, it said. (dpa)