pasol4real:
This is no News we all know, even them people from theSouth waste are very much aware they are dirty.
They know after ekiti its oyo,osun,ogun n ondo.
Lagos does not count cos its a no man's land .

I guess Aba is a town in Oyo State, where all of South West dump its wastes

primitive.

i disconcour with this assertion. i stay in ekiti and i have been to various parts of the state. i have not seen any open defecation in the state as much as i have seen in lagos.

Udochee:
my brother no try ikere version ooo...#nysc days too#

come otun their is place called boolan is like a shit forest

true talk.....i live in Ekiti. i have water closet in my house but i enjoy it more wen i defecate in d open because fresh air go enter my yanch well and fresh air go blow d bad odour away unlike wen u lock urself inside d so call room call toilet which is a white man tradition anyway. our forefathers defecate in d open so i an nt d first neither wil i b d last.

He go shit

Ogadtop:
i disconcour with this assertion. i stay in ekiti and i have been to various parts of the state. i have not seen any open defecation in the state as much as i have seen in lagos.

I am sure it is the Igbo people there that defecate openly.It is their tradition and they even teach them how to not forget their culture in the university...cal then lol



IMSU TEACHES HOW TO OPEN DEFECATE WITHOUT STRESS...DFC 101



Joachim Ibeziako Ezeji
Email:santajayinc@yahoo.com
I see a compelling need to talk about
sanitation in schools, especially
public schools in Nigeria today.
Schools in this context include the
crèche, nursery, primary, secondary
and tertiary schools. The need to
raise this issue is to call attention to
a system rot that is quietly being
ignored despite its unwholesome
damage.
I am well aware that many tertiary
institutions in Nigeria lack basic
facilities like a latrine. You can visit
any university anywhere in Nigeria
and request to use the latrine. It is
either you find your way to the
students’ hostel were you will be
faced with very dirty and filthy
latrines or you endure the discomfort
that goes with unexpected urge to
defecate (a.k.a. call of nature) at odd
times.
My recent experience at the
University of Calabar, Nigeria is
nothing to write home about. I had
left my abode at the university guest
house for the school library to
transact some business. It was there
that I felt the unfriendly urge to visit
the toilet. I had in the haste to meet
an early appointment at the library
hurried my early morning bath
without bothering to answer the call
of nature. It dawned on me when this
uninvited urge came that as big and
modern as the university library
looked; it had no functional public
convenience. What looked like one,
was in total disrepair, filthy and
smelly. To worsen the situation, none
of the nearby offices or departments
had any latrine/toilet open for visitors
like me. It was then it became
obvious to me what the situation
really is.
The situation in Calabar was no
better than those elsewhere, like
Owerri, especially the Federal
University of Technology Owerri
(FUTO), the Imo State University as
well as their counterparts in Uturu,
Port Harcourt, Abakiliki and Ekpoma
etc. In Owerri, the students living in
the Ihiagwa campus’ hostels of FUTO
are already accustomed to open
defecation. Responsible for this is
the lingering situation of filthy
latrines; a case that is made worse
by scarcity of water and
overpopulation of hostels.
Down the educational ladder are
secondary and primary schools. The
situation in these places is no better
but worse. Latrines are virtually non
existent. Where they are at all found,
they only exist solely for the use of
the teachers. Dormitories in these
schools rarely have clean functional
latrines. A visit to Government
College Owerri, the number one
college in Imo State, said it all. Water
taps there have long dried up while
the toilets are ‘shut down’. One
concerned old boy of the school is
currently putting up a private effort at
rehabilitating one of the comatose
toilet systems in the school. Open
defecation is already a pattern of life
for the bulk of the students in that
school. Sadly this school is situated
just a stone throw from the
government house in Owerri.
My conclusion from these
discoveries is that sanitation is not
yet an issue to owners and operators
of these schools. This is made worse
by the fact more children and youths
are enrolling into school than ever
before in history.
But can the challenge of providing
education of good quality be truly
achieved in a debased and
unsanitary environment? The barriers
to achieving quality education are no
doubt many and include, among
others, overcrowded classrooms,
poorly qualified and/or dispirited
teachers, lack of appropriate
educational material, and poor
conditions in the learning
environment.
Although adequate sanitary facilities
and hygiene practices form essential
components of an enabling learning
environment and quality education,
the reality is that many schools have
no latrines /toilets at all; toilet
facilities which are heavily used and
filthy; or toilets, water supply, and
hand washing facilities which are
clean but are not used or are locked
and inaccessible to the students.
When a school lacks basic water
supply and sanitation facilities and
its students have poor hygiene
habits, the incidence of major
childhood and other human illnesses
such as diarrhea and helminthes
infections among its students will
increase.
The World Health Organization (WHO)
report 2004 showed that 88% of
diarrhea disease is attributed to
unsafe water supply, inadequate
sanitation and hygiene. It reported
that improved water supply reduces
diarrhea by between 6% and 25%
.Improved sanitation reduces
diarrhea by 32%.These facts are
supported by the scientific discovery
that one gram of faeces can contain
10 million viruses,1 million bacteria,1
thousand parasite cysts, and a
hundred worm eggs.
Taking cognizance of the above fact,
it therefore becomes imperative to
underscore that faeces remains the
major source of diarrheal pathogens.
These pathogens enter the
environment if not disposed safely,
and are then spread by the four F’s:
flies, on fingers, in fluids and via
surfaces, such as fields. Cutting
these routes of transmission is key
to the prevention of diarrheal
disease.
But which of the many possible
hygiene practices would eliminate
the most disease? Boiling or
sterilizing water in the home or
school would reduce diarrhea, but
preventing faecal pathogens from
ever reaching water is likely better
and more cost effective, same for
food and snacks. The most effective
way therefore is the adequate
disposal of faeces and hand washing
with soap after touching it. Such
touching occurs after using a toilet
or when cleaning a child after
defecation. Some respiratory tract
infections, including the SARS-
causing corona virus, are also
transmitted via the faecal-oral route
or simply on hands, so hand
washing helps prevent these
infections as well.
There is no doubt therefore that poor
sanitation and its consequences
particularly ill-health adversely
affects school participation, lowering
enrollment rates, increasing
absenteeism, and contributing to
poor classroom performance and
early school dropout. It also
decreases learning capacity as
measured in educational
performance, outcomes, and
productivity.
The lack of appropriate sanitary
facilities may discourage students/
pupils from attending school; girls,
who are menstruating, in particular,
would rather not go to school than
have to deal with the lack of privacy.
However, schools also offer an
opportunity to reach the majority of
the world’s children, who at one
point or another are in the care of
the school, with a “model” for
sanitation. Because the unsanitary
conditions typical of many school
toilets send the wrong message to
students about the importance of
sanitation and hygiene, schools can
become ideal places to establish
good hygiene (and other) behaviors
as well as to provide strong
environmental models that can serve
as examples. Perhaps we forget that
children/students who learn good
hygiene in school can also become
important health promoters
everywhere especially at home.


http://www.gamji.com/article6000/NEWS6696.htm

Hehhehehhe

smh



Fallacy of a hasty generalization.

Media!! Smh

Caracta:


I believe this report 100%. Yes they have toilets (major towns only) but they don't use them. Almost every bush path has faeces decorating them like flowers. The principal of a school at Ikole-Ekiti told me that no true son of Ekiti prefers a modern toilet to defecating in the bush because of the freedom and cool breeze.

Maybe not all...but an average Ekiti man equates open defecation to orgásm

Jesu!!

It is a shame to Gov. Fayose who is always shouting in social media that his state is leading in open defecation in Nigeria

Omonigeriarere:


IPOB youth! It is high time you remind Fayose your adopted son on the need to built more toilet for his citizens instead of eating akara, ponmo, and corn in the market.

Ignored!

If you say the water is polluted with faeces, what about the fish we eat from the river?

adexsimply:

Jesu!!

Caracta: