To discourage open defecation, senior health professionals have called on the state and local governments to make public toilets usage free of charge for the populace. They noted that the required ...

some public health physicians doubt the country’s ability to achieve open defecation-free status by 2030. In exclusive interviews with PUNCH Healthwise, the experts noted that with a quarter of ...

There would be reduced rape because women or girls that enter the bush ... “We have been able to achieve 126 open defecation-free LGAs in the country and we are working hard to ensure more ...

while male offenders walk scot-free,” she said. Saddened by the near futile efforts to reduce open defecation and its severe consequences on women in the 15 mainly nomadic pastoralist counties ...

He also encouraged the states including the FCT yet to attain the open defecation free status to take deliberate measures while supporting Nigeria to attain upon defecation-free status ...

The Federal Government is to introduce a National Performance Scorecard as a ranking system to measure and compare states’ efforts towards achieving Open Defecation Free Nigeria by the year 2030.

Members of the Lagos State House of Assembly, have expressed worry over the menace of open defecation across the state, calling on relevant authorities to curb the act immediately through massive ...