Defecating or urinating is often referred to as answering the call of nature. But if you must answer the call in public in ...

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

The Oyo State government, through the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources, has intensified a campaign to end open defecation in the state.A statement on Sunday, issued by the Commissioner ...

Residents of Oregun in the Ojota Area of Lagos State have raised concerns over the incidence of open defecation in parts of the community. They lamented that if left unchecked, the practice would ...

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 ...

The Cross River House of Assembly has passed a bill to ban open defecation, aiming to improve public health, sanitation, and hygiene across the state.

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 ...

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 ...