The Jigawa State government has reintroduced an older house-to-house health inspection policy, known as Dubata Gari, which focuses on enforcing personal hygiene and environmental cleanliness.This ...

Akwa Ibom State government says it is committed to effective implementation of the Water Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) roadmap with adequate water provision to ensure that the state is open defecation ...

Kano State government has announced that 26 out of its 44 Local Government Areas (LGAs) have been certified Open Defecation ...

Kano State has made progress in its fight against open defecation, with 26 out of its 44 Local Government Areas (LGAs) now ...

The Mohali district administration, in collaboration with the police department, will launch a special drive from Wednesday ...

The "Toilet Clinic" in Bishanpur Baghnagari is the first of its kind in the state, offering repair and restoration services for broken or disused toilets. Operated entirely by local women trained as ...

Only 142 of the 744 Local Government areas, LGAs, in Nigeria have been certified open defecation free by the Federal Government. Read Also: Uromi Killing: Untold story of how villagers identified ...

Open Defacation rate declined from 16.2 per cent in 2003 to 7 per cent in 2022, the country remains among 36 countries still grappling with this unhealthy practice.

UNICEF and the Nigerian government claim Jigawa is open defecation-free. Our findings show that this is false. ... He believes toilets are for women while the men should defecate in the open.

Despite UNICEF’s endorsement, Nigeria’s only open defecation-free state struggles with human faeces UNICEF and the Nigerian government claim Jigawa is open defecation-free.