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Assemblyman, 4 Others Fined For Open Defecation

The Komenda Edina Eguafo-Abrem (KEEA) Municipal Assembly in the Central Region has fined five persons, including an...

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LIXIL Group To Improve Access To Sanitation For 100 Million People By 2020

LIXIL Group Corporation, a global leader in the housing and building industry, has endorsed a joint declaration with...

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Akufo-Addo To Pursue ‘Toilet For All’ In 2018

Government has announced it will from next year pursue a ‘Toilet for All’ agenda in a bid to end open defecation in...

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Open Defecation Claims 19,000 Lives In Ghana Annually

A World Bank report has revealed that 19,000 lives are lost in Ghana annually through the effects of open defecation...

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Landlords Given 3 Months To Build Toilets

Landlords owning houses without conveniences in the Upper East Region of Ghana has been given 3 months -from now to...

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What You Must Know and Current Sanction Measures

The very common menace of open defecation in Ghana has been one of the most difficult societal ills to put an end to!...

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‘Recognise Efforts of RICCS, DICCS’

Country Director of WaterAid Ghana, Mr. Mohammed Abdul-Nashiru, has expressed the urgent need to recognise efforts and...

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Tamale Metropolis Tops Open Defecation Chart Again

The Tamale Metropolitan Assembly has topped the list of open defecation areas in the Northern Region. This is the third...

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Residents Turn Classrooms Into Toilet In Asuogyaman District

The Asuogyaman District Education Directorate in the Eastern Region has threatened to close down the Serdom Basic...

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App To Locate Toilets To Be Introduced In India

The Indian government has announced plans to roll out ‘Swachh Bharat Toilet Locator’ in 85 cities by 2 October...

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Residents Urged To Grab Toilet At Half Price

The residents of Ashaiman and Adjei Kojo have been advised to patronise toilet at half price project to improve...

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Tackling the Negative Cultural Practices In Upper East Region

Paramount Chief of Katiu, Pe Ayikode Zangbeo Atoge IV, one of the chiefs addressing the durbar Many Anthropologists who...

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Saving Ghana From Filth; Things We Must Do Now [Article]

Over the last two days, my colleagues and I on the Citi Breakfast Show have been raging about the filthy towns and...

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Gov’t To Build 1 Million To Curb Open Defecation

The Ministry of Sanitation has revealed government’s plans to erect private toilet facilities in Ghana, as an...

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No Assembly In Greater Accra Is Open-Defecation Free

Despite policies that require every household to have a toilet facility, the 2016 District League Table (DLT) has...

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Government To Build 1 Million Toilet Facilities Across Ghana – Minister

Government intends to construct toilet facilities in various homes across the country as an effective measure of...

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Citi Breakfast Show, Tuesday 21 March, 2017

The Citi Breakfast Show on Tuesday March 21, 2017 focused on open defecation and measures that can be taken to resolve...

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Gov’t To Build 1 Million Toilet Facilities Across Ghana

Government intends to construct toilet facilities in various homes across the country as an effective measure of...

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‘Most Ghanaians Consider Open Defecation Normal’

Open defecation persists in Ghana despite continuous education about its effect on society because many Ghanaians...