Nigeria: 165M Nigerians Lack Basic Hygiene Facilities, Say Unicef, WaterAid

7 June 2018

Abuja — The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and an international non-governmental organisation, WaterAid, have revealed in separate but unified documents that 87 per cent (165.3 million) of Nigerians ‎are without basic hygiene facilities in a conservative population of 190 million.

The reports, as revealed by the World Health Organisation/United Nations Children's Fund (WHO/UNICEF) Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP) on the 'Progress on drinking water, sanitation and hygiene: 2017', also stated that 26 per cent (49.4 million) of Nigerians practice open defecation‎, 67 per cent (127.3 million) do not have basic sanitation and 33 per cent (62.7 million) are without clean water.

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