Only 11 of the 774 local government areas in Nigeria are free from the practice of open defecation, the United Nation Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has said.
A Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) specialist, Bioye Ogunjobi, said this in Kano on Wednesday.
He spoke at the opening sesion of a two-day media dialogue organised by the Ministry of Information and Culture in collaboration with UNICEF.
The dialogue, entitled: ‘Clean Nigeria,’ looked at the implications of open defecation and WASH-related issues.
Mr Ogunjobi said the Federal Ministry of Water Resources, with support from UNICEF and United Purposes,helped the 11 LGAs to achieve the feat.
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