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The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) says it has renovated 34 Primary Healthcare Centres (PHCs) in Bauchi State to ensure child survival and improve the healthcare infrastructure. Bahnu Pathak, the Chief, Bauchi Field Office, UNICEF, disclosed this on Thursday in Disina, Shira Local Government Area(LGA) of the state, during official handing-over of the Disina PHC to the state government. Reports ...

About 24 percent of Nigeria’s population, which is put at 47 million people, according to the 2018 Water Sanitation and Hygiene National Outcome Routine Mapping (WASH NORM) survey, practice open defecation. It has also been revealed that Nigeria ranks second amongst countries practicing open defecation globally. The study indicated that the North Central has the highest of 53.9 percent, followed ...

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, ...

Following the prediction by Nigerian Meteorological Agency, NIMET, that high level of flood will occur in Lagos and other states this year, Head Operations and Logistics, Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, LASEMA, Mr. Femi Giwa, explains how Lagos will tackle the looming disaster, during a UNICEF organised workshop on emergency preparedness response forum in Ibadan as reported by VANGUARD There ...

The Borno Government says it will offer nursery and primary school scholarships to 23,000 orphans taking refuge in Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camps in the state. Ahmed Satomi, the Chairman, State Emergency Management Agency, SEMA, disclosed this on Sunday in Maiduguri in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria. Mr. Satomi said the gesture was aimed at catering for ...

The federal government has lamented loss of N455 billion annually to poor sanitation saying it is equivalent to 1.3 per cent of Nigeria’s gross domestic product (GDP). Permanent secretary of the Federal Ministry of Water Resources, Rabi Jimeta disclosed this Monday at a national stakeholders’ consultative workshop on draft hygiene promotion strategy and implementation guidelines for Nigeria in Abuja. She ...