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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