Suleiman Adamu, the Minister, Ministry of Water Resources, disclosed this while declaring open a two-day Private Sector Forum on Sanitation, on Monday in Abuja.
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Suleiman Adamu, the Minister of Water Resources, said this at the National Stakeholders’ Consultation workshop on Nigeria Rural WASH Project on Thursday in Abuja
Federal Government says the Clean Nigeria: Use the Toilet campaign is aimed toward building the populace for a new culture of safe defecation in the country.
The Federal Executive Council has approved the financing of the Gurara Hydro Power Project II by the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation to the tune of $1 billion.
Taiwo Adewole, the Chief Executive Officer of Taiwo Adewole and Associates has urged the Federal Government to collaborate with Local Governments on its “Clean Nigeria Campaign’’.
Suleiman Adamu, the Minister of Water Resources, says an executive order is needed to end open defecation in the country.
The Minister of Water Resources, Suleiman Adamu, has called on private sectors to partner with the ministry in its `Clean Nigeria campaign’ towards ending open defecation in the country.
The Minister of Water Resources, Suleiman Adamu, says 52.7 million Nigerians have no access to water supply in the country.
The Federal Ministry of Water Resources and its partners have inaugurated the Clean Nigeria Website to signal commencement of Open Defecation-free campaign.
The Chairman, Council of Ministers, Lake Chad Basin Commission, Suleiman Adamu, says $5 billion (about N1.84 trillion) is required to recover the Basin’s areas affected by Boko Haram crisis.
The Minister of Water Resources, Suleiman Adamu, has called on state governments to key into the Open Defecation Free Roadmap to promote sanitation and hygiene in the country.
The Minister of Water Resources, Suleiman Adamu, made the pledge at the News Agency of Nigeria Forum in Abuja.
Adamu, who made the call at the News Agency of Nigeria Forum in Abuja, said it became necessary following continuous practice of open defecation in parts of the country.
The Minister of Water Resources, Alhaji Suleiman Adamu, on Sunday said the Federal Government inherited 116 ongoing and abandoned irrigation and water projects from the immediate past government in 2015.
The Federal Government has declared Ikom and Yala Local Government Areas of Cross River state open defecation free.
Alex Okoh, Director General, Bureau of Public Enterprises, in a statement issued by Amina Othman, Head, Public Communications, BPE, on Friday in Abuja, said the RBDAs are the Niger-Delta, Sokoto-Rima, Ogun-Osun and Upper Niger.
The campaign comes on the heels of a recent report indicting Nigeria as the second worse country in the world after India that still practices Open Defecation.
Adamu, who said this at the ongoing Nigeria Media Water Week in Abuja, noted that this was also in line with the Federal Government’s Economic Recovery and Growth Plan to promote social and economic development.
The project, conceptualised in 2001 with the intention of providing no fewer than 20 megawatts electricity to Nasarawa State, was stalled due to paucity of funds.
Adamu made this disclosure at a town hall meeting in Dutse on Monday, which deliberated on how to sustain and develop agriculture in Jigawa.