Nigeria is a party to the United Nations Declaration of the Right to Water, which entitles everyone living in Nigeria to sufficient, affordable, safe and acceptable water for personal and domestic uses.The Federal Ministry of Water Resources (FMWR) is the lead agency for WASH activities...
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by Cornelius Okeke
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Makers Should Identify Areas of Emergency Expansion
Areas for emergency expansion of hand-washing facilities such as soap stations and alcohol-based hand-rubs should be identified and be given needed attention. As during the Ebola outbreak, West African countries have swiftly and effectively deployed plastic water containers nicknamed...
Government Insincerity to Waste Management Issues
The saying that our authorities are good in developing policies but naive in implementation can be aptly illustrated in the less than satisfactory result the National Policy on Environment 1989 achieved. Heralded as a well thought out program with the...
A Global Concern
A
recent United Nations Report has posited that while developing countries are
improving in areas of portable water, most especially in Sub Sahara Africa are
still burdened by sanitation and waste management problems. There is no gain
saying that greater percentage of the population, mainly women...
We are ten years away from the Sustainable Development Goal completion year which is 2030. And like every other goal set in organisations it is only wise to have a review and see where we are currently.
Nigeria’s population is estimated to be 206,139,589 people mid...
