Rotary Club of Abuja (The Grand Father) has called on the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) to provide more ...

For residents of Daramola Abete, in the Ijora Badia area of Lagos, shot put is not the track and field sport that has delivered glory for many athletes on TV screens, but a less glamorous term for a ...

*Every year, Nigeria rolls out new campaigns to end open defecation. Billboards go up, slogans fly, and pledges pour in. But for millions, the bush remains their only bathroom. Not by choice, but by ...

In Lagos, where 70 per cent of residents lack safely managed sanitation and open defecation continues to fuel outbreaks of cholera and typhoid, a single public toilet can function as a frontline ...

Historically, open defecation has not been associated with shame, poverty, or poor hygiene. It was a socially established ...

Some of us are not aware of the impacts of open-air defecation. We are not even aware of what is open-air defecation. Basically, open-air defecation is the emptying of bowels in an open environment ...

One of the problems bedevilling Nigeria is the health effects of open defecation whose impact, according to available statistics, is huge. In this special report, OKWY IROEGBU-CHIKEZIE writes that it ...

Based on the Joint Monitoring Program report (2014), published by UNICEF and the World Health Organization (WHO), 55 million people in Indonesia practice open defecation, making it the second highest ...

Cambodia’s Minister of Rural Development, Chhay Rithisen, last week declared the country officially open defecation-free. “Under the wise leadership of Prime Minister Hun Manet and with the Ministry ...

Caroline Akinyi, a member of Bar Agulu Community Group shows members the different types of Unicef-funded SATO toilet bowls at Bar Agulu Health Center. [Denish Ochieng, Standard] Mary Achieng walks ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (QUEEN CITY NEWS) — Queen City News was the first to bring to light an uptown condominium dealing with a disgusting problem: a woman using their common spaces as her own personal ...