LGAs open defecation-free out of 774 By Gabriel Ewepu ABUJA – AS Nigerians continue to experience waterborne diseases, the ...

The minister for Water Resources and Sanitation, Engr. Prof. Joseph Utsev, has urged state governments to take decisive measures against open defecation by ...

Lagos House of Assembly has called on relevant authorities to address open defecation through massive construction of more ...

Worried about intractable open defecation, the Lagos State House of Assembly has urged the state’s Ministry of Environment ...

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.

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 ...

The Media Coalition Against Open Defecation (M-CODe) has issued a rallying cry to stakeholders, policymakers, and the general public to join forces in the fight against open defecation. President ...

Similarly, Nigeria has the high­est burden of NTDs in Africa. In Nigeria, Ebonyi state leads in open defecation with 73 percent followed by Plateau and Kogi with 56 percent each. In the South ...

The Swachh Bharat Mission has significantly impacted public health, with WHO noting the saving of 300,000 children's lives.

As open defecation continues along the median of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, the Ogun State Government says it will ...

The 2019 Kenya Population Housing and Census Report (KPHC) revealed that 85 per cent of open defecation occurs in counties such as Turkana, Samburu, Marsabit, Wajir, West Pokot, Garissa ...