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Nigeria: 'More People Have Access to Phones Than Toilets in Nigeria'
Daily Trust, 18 September 2018
More people have access to mobile phones than toilet facilities in Nigeria, UNICEF's Chief of Water Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH), Zaid Jurji, has said. Read more »
More Nigerians Have Access to Cell Phones Than Toilets - Report
The United Nations Children's Fund has expressed concern over the poor attitude of people towards healthy sanitary conditions, saying Nigerians prefer cell phones to improved toilets. The UN agency says 140 million Nigerians have cell phones more than toilets in Nigeria.
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Nigeria: More Nigerians Have Access to Cell Phones Than Toilets - Unicef Official
Premium Times, 17 September 2018
The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) says more people have access to cell phones in Nigeria than they have access to toilets. Read more »
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Nigeria: Nigeria Needs N959 Billion to Eradicate Open Defecation By 2028 - Unicef
Premium Times, 17 September 2018
Nigeria needs to invest about N959 billion to eradicate open defecation, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has said. Read more »
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Nigeria: Nigeria Losses N455 Billion Annually Due to Poor Sanitation
Vanguard, 17 September 2018
A new national Survey has shown that about 130 million Nigerians live without access to improved sanitation even as it revealed that Nigeria loses N455 billion (US$ 1.3 billion)… Read more »
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Nigeria: Five Notorious Spots Where People Defecate Openly in Abuja
Premium Times, 16 September 2018
Abuja, Nigeria's capital, is gradually turning into an open field where people defecate without restraint, recent checks by PREMIUM TIMES have shown. Read more »
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Nigeria: 69 Million Nigerians Lack Access to Safe Water
Vanguard, 18 September 2018
As Nigeria is battling one of the largest outbreaks of cholera it has ever witnessed, findings have revealed that 69 million Nigerians or 1 in 3 (35.0 percent) of the population… Read more »
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Nigeria: Why Open Defecation Is Prevalent Across Nigeria
Premium Times, 4 September 2018
"Driver, abeg park, somebody want to poopoo," a passenger yelled above the music blaring from the bus radio. Read more »
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Nigeria: Nigeria, 46 Others Commit to Ending Cholera Outbreaks By 2030
Leadership, 30 August 2018
Nigeria and 46 other African countries have adopted the Regional Framework for the Implementation of the Global Strategy for Cholera Prevention and Control at the ongoing 68th… Read more »
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Nigeria: What's to Blame for Nigeria's Yearly Cholera Outbreak?
Africa Check, 27 August 2018
Each rainy season Nigerians face a higher risk of cholera. Our factsheet looks at what causes these yearly outbreaks, what makes them worse, and what's being done to prevent them. Read more »
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An estimated 33 million Nigerians still practice open defecation in different parts of the country, depositing about 1.7 million tons of faeces into the environment annually, says ... Read more »
