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 ...
One of the problems bedevilling Nigeria is the health effects of open defecation whose impact, according to available statistics, is huge. In this special report, OKWY IROEGBU-CHIKEZIE writes that it ...
*Every year, Nigeria rolls out new campaigns to end open defecation. Billboards go up, slogans fly, and pledges pour in. But for millions, the bush remains their only bathroom. Not by choice, but by ...
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.
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Every time she needs to go to the toilet, Shadima Irima recalls the moment Boko Haram militants stormed her home in northeast Nigeria and killed her ...
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Hundreds of students forced to defecate in open ground as water shortage hits residential schools in Wadi
Wadi: Hundreds of students studying in residential schools under the Social Welfare Department in Wadi town faced severe hardship due to a water shortage, forcing many of them to resort to open ...
Based on the Joint Monitoring Program report (2014), published by UNICEF and the World Health Organization (WHO), 55 million people in Indonesia practice open defecation, making it the second highest ...
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 intensified its enforcement against open defecation, arresting 46 offenders in a fresh crackdown across major commercial corridors on Lagos Island. The arrests were ...
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 ...
The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) Sanitation Court has convicted eight individuals for open defecation in parts of Accra, remanding seven of them into prison custody after they failed to pay court ...
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