Ebonyi State Government and the UNICEF have agreed to deepen collaboration to tackle open defecation, cholera, child ...

The Governor of Ebonyi State, Francis Nwifuru, has urged the United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF, and other development ...

Governor Nwifuru said this on Friday, when a UNICEF advocacy team, led by the organisation’s Nigeria Chief of Field Services, ...

Alumni Association of Nigeria (JAAN) has pledged commitment to help achieve Open Defecation-Free status in all ...

Open Defacation 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. Though Kenya’s Open Defacation(OD) ...

The Minister of State for Environment, Isiaq Salako says the Federal Government is on course to end open defecation by 2025. Salako said this at the public hearing by the House of Representatives ...

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 ...

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 ...

As Plateau State intensifies in its statewide campaign against the menace of open defecation across the state, the State’s Programme Coordinator, Engr. Jonathan Malann, in this encounter in Jos, tells ...

*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 ...