Tag:Water Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)

UNICEF wants Nigeria to triple current investment to meet sanitation targets

The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on Friday, June 16, 2023, urged the Nigerian Government to triple its current investment in sanitation and hygiene to...

Acute water shortage: Any hope for Sabongida community?

In faraway New York in 2019, then Plateau governor, Simon Lalong, made one of the speeches that was expected to define his tenure as...

WaterAid launches five-year strategy to improve water, sanitation services for 17m Nigerians

WaterAid Nigeria on Tuesday, May 23, 2023, formally launched a new five-year Country Programme Strategy, to improve access to basic water and sanitation services...

Botswana intends to join the Water Convention

Botswana has expressed interest in joining the Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes (the Water Convention). The government official...

Successful initiatives improve access to uncontaminated water in Nigeria

This year’s World Water Day focused on accelerating change to provide universal access to water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services, a goal that the Nigerian government...

Govt inaugurates YouthWASH programme

The Federal Government has inaugurated a Youth Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (YouthWASH) programme strategy to mobilise youths at all levels to reposition and strengthen the...

Increase actions that drive water as climate change adaptation tool – Stiell

The UN Climate Change Executive Secretary, Simon Stiell, is calling on States to increase international action and policy-making that places water at the forefront...

Govt intensifies efforts to make FCT open defecation-free

The Federal Government, through the Clean Nigeria Campaign (CNC) Secretariat, has stepped up efforts to make the FCT open defecation-free by 2025. Mrs Chizoma Opara,...

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A third of animal habitats could experience multiple extreme events by 2085 – Study

By 2085, 36 percent of species’ current habitats on land could be exposed to multiple types of climate-driven extreme...
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Leaders call for Africa-led solutions following landmark court ruling on climate obligations

African leaders, policymakers, legal experts, scientists and practitioners have called for African-led solutions to climate change, as its impacts...

Two-thirds of global hunger concentrated in 10 countries – Report 

The 2026 Global Report on Food Crises on Friday, April 24, revealed that two-thirds of all people facing high...

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A third of animal habitats could experience multiple extreme events by 2085 – Study

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