Tag: sanitation

Opinion: Reversing Nigeria’s deplorable water, sanitation and hygiene situation

by Jide Ojo Three weeks ago, precisely from September 20 – 22, I was at Yankari Game Reserve for a three day workshop organised by WaterAid Nigeria. It was an…

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The Thread: Wife travels. Husband leaves house to fester with maggots | TwitterNG reacts

TwitterNG is showing its claws again after this video of a wife returning to her house to meet a horrifyingly dirty kitchen was posted. WATCH: That's just nasty. *goosebumps*…

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2 people have died and 4 quarantined | How is this Lassa fever spread?

Yesterday, two people were reported to have lost their lives at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital where they were being treated for the Lassa fever virus. Chief Medical Director at the…

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Harpic educates on importance of improved sanitation practices in Nigeria

According to statistics from World Health Organisation (WHO) and UNICEF in 2015, approximately 2.4 billion people lacked access to improved sanitation and 1.1 billion people (15 per cent of the…

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There is no environmental sanitation today

The monthly environmental Sanitation exercise has been put on hold on Saturday by Lagos State Government This means there can be human and/or vehicular movement today. This is to enable…

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Opinion: World Toilet Day – Say no to open defecation and yes to toilets

by Jide Niyi-Leigh Every other student paid rapt attention as the biology teacher explained the process of reproduction It was a class we all looked forward to, but something felt wrong, within…

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Water scarcity: Taraba gov’t to spend N3.6 billion on new boreholes in Jalingo Town

by Vincent Ehiabhi In a bid to end constant water scarcity in Jalingo, the Taraba State Government and the African Development Bank (ADB) have launched a N3.6 billion water project for…

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New toilets: Bill Gates leads innovation in human sanitation

by Doyin Jaiyesimi He revolutionised computers, now he wants to revolutionise toilets. Last year, Bill Gates, through the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation raised a challenge to universities across the…

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