2022 World Toilet Day
21 Nov
Did you know that over 800 children under five years old die from diseases linked to unsafe water, poor sanitation, and poor hygiene? 3.6 billion people live without access to a safe toilet. (WHO/UNICEF 2021). Groundwater accounts for approximately 99 percent of all liquid freshwater on Earth. (UN-Water 2022). Groundwater provides half of all water…
20 Nov
As the world commemorates World Toilet Day, the Federal Government of Nigeria has charged citizens with the need to cooperate with it in the bid to end open defecation in the country.
16 Nov
As part of the reeled-out plans to commemorate the upcoming 2022 World Toilet Day, Hypo Toilet Cleaner is set to hold an awareness rally on safe toilet use in five cities: Lagos, Abuja, Kano, Port Harcourt and Ibadan. The theme for this year is “Making the Invisible Visible” which bothers on the sanitation crisis being…
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The Presidency, yesterday, described as ‘fake’, the reported pelting of President Muhammadu Buhari in the Hotoro area of Kano State.