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Water Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) from the 20 local government areas of Bauchi State have called on the state government to establish more toilet facilities in public places. The stakeholders stated this Tuesday at a cluster meeting on Vote4WASH, held at the Development Exchange Centre (DEC) in Bauchi, organized by the Network for Civil Society Organizations in Water and Sanitation ...

The Chairman of Isiala Ngwa South Local Government Area, Ifeanyi Isikaku has called for a probe of the commissioning of an uncompleted road that the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) awarded in their local government area. Special Adviser to the President on Media, Mr. Femi Adesina commissioned the road in the company of Mr. Alex Otti, governorship aspirant, who was ...

In a bid to attain an open defecation free Nigeria, UNICEF engaged the services of SMEDAN in the construction of toilets to millions of homes across the country. MBAKAAN KWEN (Abuja) writes on the journey so far. Open defecation is the human practice of defecating in the open environment rather than into a toilet. People may choose fields, bushes, forests, ...

The Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) has embarked on payment of compensation to villagers who own buildings, economic trees and monuments destroyed by the Commission while constructing four access roads in Umudike community in Ohaji Egbema LGA of Imo state. Paramount ruler of the community, Eze-Ali James Nwanro, and the youth president of the community, Ndubuisi Uche, who were supervising ...

Kano State government is spending about N400 million on constructions of new police divisions across the state, Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje has said. The governor stated this yesterday at the foundation laying ceremony of the Police Area Command office along Court Road, Tarauni. He said the police divisions include two Area Commands at Court Road, Tarauni local government and Tudun ...

The Department of Estate Management in the Faculty of Environmental Sciences, University of Lagos (UNILAG) has volunteered to assist the Lagos State Government to enthrone sustainable Land Use Charge  (LUC) Administration to resolve the current impasse. This is in line with what the Vice-Chancellor of the University, Professor Oluwatoyin Ogundipe described as desirable engagement between Town and Gown. Bennett Oghifo ...

The authority of the Ife North Local Government Area of the State of Osun, led by Hon. Orosanya Taiwo has begun the massive grading of the roads in the council area. According to a statement by the council’s Senior Information Officer, Olonade Tunde, the roads currently undergoing grading include Ipetumodu 1, Ojude, Oruku-Apekaye Street, C.A.C. Oke-Anu FGHS Isale-Oba-Elemu, Alh. Maria-Isale ...

The Kogi State government has said it is hoping to attract about $350 million which it would put into developing its agriculture and infrastructure within this year. It said that it would invest $200 million in its agriculture, while $150 million would go to the upgrade of the state’s social infrastructure. The state’s Commissioner for Finance, Mr. Asiwaju Idris, made ...

Business Day reports that Nigerian Shippers’ Council, NSC, has secured 50,000 hectares of land at Obollo Afor, Udenu Local Government Area of Enugu State to build multi-million truck transit park. Executive Secretary, NSC, Hassan Bello, represented by Ignatius Nweke, a director in Enugu Zone, who disclosed this in Enugu at the on going Enugu Trade Fair said that the  Enugu ...