Owerri — In Nigeria, it's all about the numbers. My nation recently became the largest economy in Africa by some distance, with a GDP of well over 500 billion dollars.
At the same time, 63.2 million people don't have access to safe water, and over 112 million people - two thirds of the population - don't have access to adequate sanitation. This figure has risen since 1990.
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