ABUJA — No fewer than 48 million Nigerians still practice open defecation, according to the newly released 2021 Water, Sanitation and Hygiene National Outcome Routine Mapping (WASH-NORM) III Report. This is the thrust at the inauguration of the 2021 WASH-NORM III Report in Abuja on Tuesday. The Minister of Water Resources, Mr. Suleiman Adamu, said slow progress being made in improving water and sanitation services was due to population expansion, low commitments from states and...
ABUJA — The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) says it plans to construct 10,000 public toilets in strategic locations to end open defecation across the FCT. The Acting Director, FCT Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Agency (RUWASSA), Mohammed Dan-Hassan, said this at a sensitisation programme for residents on the risks of open defecation, on Monday in Abuja. Dan-Hassan disclosed that President Muhammadu Buhari had 2018 launched an emergency on water sanitation and hygiene in the...
ABUJA — The Abuja Environmental Protection Board (AEPB) will seal some government offices, hotels, plazas, and other business premises that may be under lock and key over debt. Recall that a Task Team was set up by the FCTA Permanent Secretary; Mr. Olusade Adesola to recover over Ten billion naira owed to the AEPB by several government agencies, business premises, and residential apartments in the nation’s capital. This information was disclosed by the Director of AEPB,...
ABUJA — The Managing Director, North East Development Commission (NEDC) Mr. Muhammed Alkali says Crisis and Climate Change have affected 30 million people in the Lake Chad Region. He made this known at the opening of the first Annual forum on the development of the Lake Chad Region held in Abuja, saying regional collaboration on the recovery and development of the Lake Chad Region keyed into by the Federal Government will improve economic and Socio-political...
By Emannuel Chigbata (Staff Reporter) AWKA — The Governor of Anambra State Prof. Chukwuma Soludo has praised the Nigeria Erosion and Watershed Management Project (NEWMAP), for its efforts in controlling erosion in Nigeria. The governor who spoke through his deputy, Dr. Onyekachukwu Ibezim described Anambra as the erosion capital of Africa but stated that NEWMAP’s intervention has helped to reclaim areas that would have ordinarily been lost. Soludo spoke during the additional financing implementation...
ENUGU — The ambiance once enjoyed by the coal city residents and visitors have become a thing of the past as gory sights of garbage in all nooks and cranny of Enugu state raise questions on the existence or extinct of the waste management agency established in 2004 under Chimaroke Nnamani administration. The once spick and span environs of the city now compete with Onitsha in Anambra State and Aba in Abia state; Onitsha in...
By Joe C Anatune, Columnist and Blogger The environmental decay in Okpoko, Anambra’s largest urban slum, is huge and poses existential threats to the inhabitants. Anambra State Governor Prof Chukwuma Soludo thinks that the place can still be revamped and made liveable. He is doing just that and steering the world to a desirable upgrading. Typically, he is shooting on all cylinders and the world is taking note. True, hope is akin to the...
A bill aimed at promoting sanitation and public hygiene and to prevent open defecation across Jigawa state has been passed by the State House of Assembly. The bill was passed on Tuesday during the House plenary presided by the Speaker, Hon Idris Garba Jahun. According to the Speaker, when the bill was signed into law, any person caught urinating or defecating openly not in the house, public toilet, and other designated places will be sentenced...
ILORIN — Fish farmers within the boundaries of the Asa Dam waterworks in Kwara state have been ordered to stop the discharge of sewage into the dam immediately. State Commissioner for Water Resources, Wahab Femi Agbaje, also directed that the 250-metre minimum setback stated in the law should be maintained by all the fish farmers operating by the dam side. This was contained in a communique issued at the end of stakeholders meeting with the...
ABUJA — Justice Taiwo Taiwo of the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, has granted an order, mandating the Central Bank of Nigeria to release the sum of N81.9 billion standing to the credit of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, and its joint venture partner, Mobil Producing Nigeria Unlimited, in its custody to oil-producing communities in the Ibeno Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom state. Justice Taiwo gave the order on Monday in a judgment...
