WASH

In far away Yammawah Kafawa, a fulani community in Dambata Local Government Area (LGA), of Kano State, at Northern Nigeria, there is no electricity for the children to watch Disney World or African Magic on television. There is no…

47 million practise open defecation No fewer than 80 million Nigerians are in dire need of improved toilet, new facts from UNICEF have revealed. Of these, 47 million people reportedly defecate openly, 33 million use…

• NCDC attributes major cause to poor water and hygiene facilities in many States The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) says there has been a general decline in the number of new cases of cholera in Nigeria within the last…

• Says 45,000 children die annually from lack of hygiene globally The Water and Sanitation (WASH) Specialist for the United Nations Children Education Fund (UNICEF), Maina Banga, yesterday June 11,  identified diarrhoea as the major cause…

Relief came the way of some communities in Nigeria’s Niger Delta region with the commissioning of water and sanitation projects by the European Union (EU) and the  United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) in collaboration  with the state …

KADUNA – The U.S. government, through its Agency for International Development (USAID), Thursday,  launched a new water and sanitation activity that will help Kaduna and Bauchi states improve the health and hygiene of their populations.…

ABUJA - A new report by WaterAid Nigeria, an international non-governmental working towards  improved access to safe water, improved hygiene and sanitation in the world's poorest communities,  has revealed that  two-thirds of 200 Primary…

Rita Michael Edet 11, a Primary Six pupil of St Paul UNA Primary School, Shomolu, Lagos  could hardly conceal her excitement as she joined guests to commission a new toilet facility donated to her school yesterday. She was all smiles as…