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

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 ...

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 ...

*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 ...

Contributing to the debate, the lawmakers said the bill aligned with national and global initiatives aimed at eliminating ...

At least five persons were arrested in the early hours of Thursday for allegedly defecating in public spaces in the Lagos Island area of the state.The arrests come less than a week after the Lagos ...

Lagos State has arrested 275 individuals for open defecation, a practice deemed illegal despite over 8,710 available public ...

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.

In 2018, former President Muhammadu Buhari declared a state of emergency on open defecation, with the launch of the National Action Plan to end open defecation by 2025. With less than two years to the ...

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 Lagos State Government has arrested 46 people for open defecation during early morning enforcement operations across Lagos Island. The arrests were carried out by the Anti-Open Defecation Squad ...