The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has said Nigeria will need to build 3.9 million toilets annually to meet the ending of open defecation by 2025 target. UNICEF Chief of Water for Sanitation ...

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 ...

Some residents of Gwagwalada Area Council, Abuja, have called on government at all levels to proffer lasting solutions to the menace of open defecation in the area. The residents, who made the call in ...

A UNICEF representative, Mr Uba Lawal, said the review meeting was timely as 2025 was drawing near. The National Coordinator, Clean Nigeria Campaign, said this at a two-day “2023 North East Review ...

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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 ...

Although rural Karnataka was declared “Open Defecation Free” in 2018, a survey of women in 390 Scheduled Caste households in Chikkodi taluk, Belagavi, has found that nearly 50% of the households do ...

In Lagos, where 70 per cent of residents lack safely managed sanitation and open defecation continues to fuel outbreaks of cholera and typhoid, a single public toilet can function as a frontline ...

Please enable JavaScript to read this content. Caroline Akinyi, a member of Bar Agulu Community Group shows members the different types of Unicef-funded SATO toilet ...

The Kwara State Government has raised fresh concerns over the growing health and environmental risks associated with open defecation, calling on residents across the state to embrace proper sanitation ...

Open sewage at Kenya’s largest slum, Kibera, in Nairobi. Photo credit: Chiba Yasuyoshi/AFP via Getty Images Imagine you are miles from the nearest restroom, and nature’s call is urgent – a situation ...