Despite efforts by the federal government and partners to ensure access to Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) services in the country, the 2021 Water,
It added that 90 per cent of the 102,000 diarrhea related under five child deaths annually was directly attributed to unsafe water and sanitation.
Stressing the need for national and state budgets to reflect the importance of toilets and water sources to the health of children and workforce, Adams said „We must prioritise investments in physical and human resources and scale up existing programmes targeting expansion of toilet and water services.‘
However, the new report says that only 10 per cent of Nigerian population have access to complete basic water, sanitation and hygiene services, using the global JMP definition. The survey, which was done in collaboration with the Nigerian Bureau of Statistics and the United Nations Children‘s Fund showed that only 11 per cent of schools have basic WASH services, and that at 18 per cent, school in urban areas were about twice as likely to have access to WASH service than schools in rural areas.
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