The United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF, has disclosed that over 50million Nigerians do not have access to toilets hence resort to open defecation.
UNICEF: Over 50m Nigerians defecate openly
The world body also revealed that Nigeria ranks among the five countries in the world with the greatest rates of open defecation.
This was made known in a report issued yesterday by Ijeoma Onuoha-Ogwe, UNICEF ‘A Field Office’ Communication Officer (Advocacy, Media and External Relations) on behalf of Sanjay Wijesekera, head of UNICEF’s global water, sanitation and hygiene programmes, to coincide with World Toilet Day.
The report titled, Improving Nutrition Outcomes with Better Water, Sanitation and Hygiene, pointed out the emerging evidence of links between inadequate sanitation and malnutrition among children.
Wijesekera was quoted as saying that “Nigeria loses over 150,000 children to diarrhea annually. After pneumonia, it is the biggest killer of Nigeria’s under-fives; 88 per cent of diarrhoea cases in Nigeria are attributed to unsafe water and sanitation. Where rates of toilet use are low, rates of diarrhoea tend to be high.
“Intestinal parasites such as roundworm, whipworm and hookworm are transmitted through contaminated soil in areas where open defecation is practiced. Hookworm is a major cause of anaemia in pregnant women, leading to malnourished, underweight babies.
“We need to bring concrete and innovative solutions to the problem of where people go to the toilet, otherwise we are failing millions of our poorest and most vulnerable children.”
Vanguard cullage.
Oh,terrible people who still have toilet sometimes defecate outside. When they are not within the reach of a toilet
ReplyDeleteAm telling you. When clean public toilets are unavailable I wonder what they expect the people to do.
DeleteNigerians are shameless naaa...they don't care!
DeleteExactly. Dirty and Pathetic behavior. Most of building don't have toilet facility, that's why. I wonder how people will agree to pay rent for a house without toilet. Nigeria has a long way to go in terms of civilization
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End time shit
ReplyDeleteMr End time, I knew u'll say that..lol
DeleteU ve moved from Naira land to SDK
50 million people? Big lie
DeleteHmmmmmm. See me perceiving the smell of their poo
ReplyDeleteLol.. ur nose sharp
DeleteReally ? Did they count or guesstimate? Lie lie pipo
ReplyDeleteNo mind them. As if they ever felt d sheer joy of having breeze blow ur under tins while taking a dump! Sweet!
Delete50 million kwa?
ReplyDeleteSeen.
Go waterside settlements, u won't eat fish again.
ReplyDeleteEwww thank God I don't eat fish lol. But really, even the public toilets available in Nigeria are not maintained. It'll take a subconscious person to attempt the use of any public toilet in lagos especially. Na die. That's why people would rather defecate in the bush or roadside instead of entering one yeye toilet to catch Ebola. It's sad. The general hygiene level in this country should be upped
DeleteThem abokis
ReplyDeleteMake una nor even lie on abokis, cos una go come here dey gist for Saturday gist n co how una dey run inside bush to shit.
Deletethem sabi talk lie o
ReplyDelete#GODWIN™
I'm very picky with toilets... Especially in places I'm not familiar with. Maybe it's because I feel no toilet can be as clean as mine, so I've mastered the art of holding urine till I get home.
ReplyDeleteSometimes, being too neat/clean could be such a burden... lol. One is always sweeping, cleaning, arranging, laying the bed, doing the dishes while cooking and immediately after eating.
Future DH had better receive sense!!
That right there is dangerous! You have OCD! Its your type that breaks up over how boo squeezed toothpaste tube or leaving his tie on the dinning chair. You're the sort who wakes a man up around 3:00am to relay the bed just because you went to wee during the night! Hian!
DeleteLol. It's not that bad, trust me...
DeleteQuiksilver, trust me, I am worse.
DeleteI fell sick terribly sometime ago.
I threw up several times and all that was in my head was to sweep the room and arrange the bed which i did.
My friend came and met my room sparkling clean and told me i'd kill myself someday. Lwkm.
Hmmm I overcame mine after my second child. Infact I don't want to remember. My hubby and I nearly broke apart becos of this habit o. I think mine was more becos we weren't living in Nigeria at the time, so no domestic help. I would sweep under ur feet and be arranging the throw pillows whilst u sat on them. Chai my hubby suffered then o. At some point he became scared of using the toilet in the house or even drinking water lol..i mustn't see any splash of water in my zinc o. My mother would come visiting and she ran away lol. Them cuss me tire. But now I've relaxed and just look away. Not after u have kids, u can't control certain things abeg. I don't wish OCD on my enemy. Na another level of mental kolo. Lol
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DeleteVery shameful
ReplyDeleteThis means that one-third of Nigerians defecate outside. I think the figure is slightly exaggerated.
ReplyDeleteIt is not slightly but grossly exaggerated, 50million indeed.
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Kaii Short put!!!!
ReplyDeleteVery true @blackberry.
ReplyDeleteEeewww!
ReplyDeleteBlackberry wan make fish tire person.
ReplyDeleteVery very bad,but in the village the sweetest place to shit is in the bush, tried it once God!!! I was glad I did.
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DeleteDat village bush na swit pass....chai.
December plz stop cat walking already..lol
Very wrong thing but who did the counting? Were they there or was there cctv there? I believe it also happens in other developing countries.
ReplyDeleteyes o, we still in our house, when we no get money to build toilet nko.
ReplyDeleteMadam,Habaaa.Una don't have money to build toilet?
DeleteAbegi,start asking God for thousands first
this count is faulty
ReplyDeleteWhen I come across this negative news about Nigeria,(not just this one) one thing they often skip is the trado-cultural differences.when I look at their research, their sample size is relatively small to the larger population...
ReplyDeletethen there is cultural differences (eg naija believe in using water and soap to wash up after toilet, not using one tiny tissue leaving residue of feces in their undie (as done in parts of asia and the western world) naija believe in thorough bathing with sponge not that useless wash armpit and face thing western ppl do, or just enter bath, comot as loved by some europeans. Naija wash their beef chicken, meat, fish, sea food bought from supermarts before preparing and cooking it while the west just cook direct no washing, , in addition to washing we cook the beef, chicken, meet at high temperatures and still fry it, westerners not only do not wash, they may top it wit olive oil and serve it rare or medium rare, basically as raw as possible (they have their own nutritional reason and we dont bug them. BUT these differences are not taken into account in all this 'research'.
That said, I am usually objective, because Nigeria we have a lot of work to do in so many areas of our lives but it seems because we admit it, they want to beat our psyche down, pliz try visit other countries, they dont degrade themselves but you will know nigeria is just not the worse, what you will see will make you weep, asia o, eastern europe o, even ur beloved US and UK, bikonu.They know their challenges and yet still stand proud enough to make naijas feel so inferior they acccept useless reports.
Yes we are not the best but in this one we better pass India. 'Sanjay, head of UNICEF’s global water, sanitation and hygiene programmes, to coincide with World Toilet Day' sanjay the Indian, look I am in your country right now as a professional athleteand been counting the days till I leave!!!!!! Your people openly defecate not only in the public, (naija go enta bush abi) but in your dirty train station where foreigners like me and locals like you go dey look while your people open their brown a$$ to sh*t in and around the station!Talkess of around your cities,you guys also have a problem with water, hence your 'toilets' na PIT LATRINE, especially in tourist sites. DIRTY MURKY PIT LATRINE.Your people sleep on the streets as a norm. I mean thousands of elderly indians no where to sleep, sleep on the road.
Sanjay the Indian, you wont admit this but you have a sincere problem with dirt and filth. Your streets are filthy, your filth if gathered can fill up to 10 naija states and e no go reach. And you have a big problem with water. Your water is recycled and the process is not up to standard which leads to the diseases you are listing up there. Sanjay Wijesekera, solve the filth in your country.
If you are a Nigerian that have never stepped out of the country, you will think the country is the worst country of the world and believe in 'my pipu are usuless my pipu are sensuless, my pipu are indizipline' agenda being thrown about.Some of these research have AGENDA and are made up of a tiny sample area in a small part of one city in one state in nigeria where yes negative things happen, add plenty of hearsay, mix it up with FAKING figures resulting in lies, damn lies and statistics!
(Its like saying because a white boy shoots up a school in US,75% of white young men will shoot up their school.(see how i plucked the figures of my imagination, but they wont do such a report on USA,cus apart from obvious reasons inc how Almighty U.S is, Americans dont go abt saying they are useless, senseless and beasts of no nations.
StellaDCOCK (make i use ur name cool) na you provoke me to type o
Well said!...
DeleteHaba UNICEF!! 50million?
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