Fifteen (15) per cent of residents of the Kumasi Metropolis, Ghana’s second largest city, is said to engage in open defecation, the Waste Management Department of the Metropolitan Assembly has...
Open defaecation gets out of hand around University of Health & Allied Sciences; lecturers, chiefs fingered
A resident of Sokode Gbogame, a suburb of Ho in the Volta Region where the University of...
Former President Jerry John Rawlings has expressed disappointment that though many are currently obtaining higher educational laurels than pertained in the past they seem unable to apply the...
Saturday, April 28 will witness the launch of the Clean Zongo Project, an initiative of the Ministry of Inner City and Zongo Development. The Project will be launched in Nima, one of the popular...
Survival by handwashing, the story of 45-year old Awo 45 year old Awo Lamptey has commercialized the art of handwashing, washing for people to make a living for a family of six. Handwashing is ...
Unilever Ghana Limited through its Rexona deodorant and anti-perspirant brand has outdoored the ‘’Be The Next Champion’’ campaign as part of its partnership with English Premier League...
Government says it owes waste collectors and operators of landfill sites across the country about 800 million cedis, a situation that is crippling waste management efforts. Managers of landfill site...
The Executive Chairman of the Jospong Group of Companies, Dr Joseph Siaw Agyepong, has pledged his support and commitment towards the government’s sanitation agenda. Dr. Agyepong lauded the...
The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) on Saturday cleared filth at the London Market in Accra. Mr Sam Ayeh-Datey, the AMA Coordinating Director who led in the exercise called on the inhabitants to...
The Komenda Edina Eguafo-Abrem (KEEA) Municipal Assembly in the Central Region has fined five persons, including an Assembly Member, for an open defecation at beach. The five were not taken to court...
LIXIL Group Corporation, a global leader in the housing and building industry, has endorsed a joint declaration with the World Toilet Organization, Saraya Co., Ltd., and the ANA BLUE WING Program on...
Government has announced it will from next year pursue a ‘Toilet for All’ agenda in a bid to end open defecation in the country. Consequent to that, it will provide 200,000 household toilets and...
Homeowners in the Kumasi metropolis without toilet facilities in their homes will soon face prosecution, Chief Executive of the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA), Osei Assibey Antwi, has warned....
Bodyform advert -Apparently, a UK-based sanitary pad company is out to kick out the taboo or stereotype linked with women’s menstrual cycle. Essity, makers of Bodyform sanitary pad has proven that...
A World Bank report has revealed that 19,000 lives are lost in Ghana annually through the effects of open defecation and its related poor sanitation diseases. This is because of the high rate of the...
Landlords owning houses without conveniences in the Upper East Region of Ghana has been given 3 months -from now to December, to construct toilet facilities for their respective houses or risk having...
UNICEF Ghana Chief of WASH, Mr. David Duncan, has advised WASH sector partners to share more information on WASH programme implementation in the rural areas which were yielding results in order to...
Country Director of WaterAid Ghana, Mr. Mohammed Abdul-Nashiru, has expressed the urgent need to recognise efforts and contributions of the Regional Interagency Coordinating Committees (RICCS) and...
Traders in Kpeve Market in the South Dayi District of the Volta region have staged a protest against payment of market tolls which they claim does not inure to their benefit. The aggrieved traders,...
The Asuogyaman District Education Directorate in the Eastern Region has threatened to close down the Serdom Basic School because residents in the area defecate in the classrooms. Because the area...
