SIR: According to the 2018 National Outcome Routine Mapping (NORM) Report, 47 million Nigerians practice open defecation. In other words, one out of four Nigerians engage in open defecation. Nigeria ...
Nigeria is expected to be free of open defecation by 2025. The deadline has been set, through the government’s proclamation and efforts are in top gear to achieve set objectives. At the front in this ...
The Swachh Bharat mission, launched in 2014, was an ambitious effort to stop open defecation. It's far from reaching that goal. Ben Fox Rubin was a senior reporter for CNET News in Manhattan, ...
The practice spreads diseases like diarrhoea, dysentery, hepatitis A and typhoid through entire communities, the UN officials said, costing about $US260 billion ...
Seventeen communities in two regions have been declared open defecation-free. This follows their ability to have 100 per cent ...
According to United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) figures, about 46 million Nigerians practice open defecation. This statistics puts Nigeria second after India in the world ranking of countries with ...
The Minister of Water Resources and Sanitation, Prof. Terlumun Utsev, made the declaration on Tuesday in Otukpo. Utsev, who was represented by the Director of Quality Control and Sanitation, Elizabeth ...
Harpic, Nigeria’s leading toilet cleaning brand from Reckitt, has reaffirmed its commitment to improving sanitation and ...
Despite crores of rupees being spent on cleaning the Ganga under the Namami Gange programme, open defecation by slum dwellers along the banks of the holy river in various parts of Haridwar continues ...