To curtail the spread of the cholera epidemic, the Federal Government has commenced tackling its causes, including open defecation. Speaking about the new anti-open defecation drive yesterday, Vice ...

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 ...

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 ...

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) says Nigeria will need to build no fewer than 3.9 million toilets annually to meet the ending open defecation practice by 2025 target. Dr Jane Bevan, UNICEF ...

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 ...

Whenever Fatimoh Idera passes between the ridges along the popular market in Akungba, Ondo, Southwest Nigeria, she always covers her nose as an escape route against the polluted air oozing from the ...