The Oyo State government has reaffirmed its dogged commitment to attaining the Open Defecation-Free (ODF) status.The Secretary to the State Government, Prof. Musibau Babatunde made this statement when ...

The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) Sanitation Court has convicted eight persons for engaging in open defecation in parts ...

The Lagos State Government has arrested a woman and several others for defecating in public in Lagos Island part of the State ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Sanitation Court has remanded seven individuals into prison custody for engaging in open defecation in parts of the capital ...

Seventeen individuals have been convicted and fined by a Lagos Magistrate Court for engaging in open defecation and urination.The Lagos State Government disclosed this on its official verified X ...

*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 ...

The Lagos Waste Management Authority, LAWMA, has arraigned 17 offenders before the Magistrate Court, Bolade for urinating and defecating in public spaces.

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 ...