She said that many women and girls were being sexually assaulted as they defecated in the bush. The theme for this year’s celebration is “Toilet for All: Focusing on leaving no one behind”. The 10,000 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Children’s laughter skimmed over water the color of mud as mothers wrung laundry over banks where the Sekadau joins the ...

Tostan, an international NGO operating in the upper and central parts of the country has been credited with bringing remarkable social transformation to communities across the two regions, as ...

Ending the practice of defecating in the open, rather than in a toilet, will have “transformational benefits” for some of the world’s most vulnerable people, says the UN’s partner sanitation body, the ...

As the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the Bayelsa State government intervene to prevent and fight cholera outbreaks, they have lamented that 60 per cent of communities in the state ...

Seventeen communities in two regions have been declared open defecation-free. This follows their ability to have 100 per cent coverage of latrine facilities in their communities. They are the West ...