Mr Zaid Jurji, Chief, Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) for <strong>UNICEF</strong> says eliminating open defecation requires every Nigerian getting involved to ...

He reaffirmed government’s commitment to sustained monitoring and enforcement, warning that offenders would continue to face arrest and prosecution in line with the law.

For residents of Daramola Abete, in the Ijora Badia area of Lagos, shot put is not the track and field sport that has delivered glory for many athletes on TV screens, but a less glamorous term for a ...

For Uganda, a country whose millions of citizens still practice open defecation, it must use students to go into communities and sensitize them against this vice, Dr. Moses Ntaro has recommended. Dr.

The Lagos state government says it has arrested 46 persons for open defecation during coordinated early morning operations across Lagos Island.

The Lagos State Government has arrested at least 275 residents across different parts of the state for defecating in public places despite the availability of 8,710 functional public toilets.PUNCH ...

Though Kenya’s Open Defacation(OD) 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. The 2019 Kenya ...

Stakeholders in the sanitation and hygiene sector have decried the rate of open defecation in all the area councils in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). The stakeholders spoke during the first ...

Stakeholders in Ebonyi state have called for concerted efforts in the fight to end open defecation in the state. They made the call during a two-day stakeholders consultative meeting on the review of ...

The Lagos State Government has warned residents and visitors in the state to desist from the act of open defecation.The government gave the warning in an advisory message posted on its Facebook page ...

The Lagos state Commissioner of Environment and Water Resources, Tokunbo Wahab, has announced the arrest of 20 individuals for defecating in public areas in the state. INFORMATION NIGERIA reports that ...