Tag: Water Sector

41% public water supply contaminated with faeces FG

Aminu Imam

The Federal Government has pledged to end continuous contamination of drinking water sources, as no fewer than 41 per cent of the countrys public water supply were contaminated with faeces. The Minister of Water Resources and Sanitation, Joseph Utsev, said this at the launch of the “Nigerian Roadmap for Water Quality Management and Guidelines for Rural Drinking Water Quality Monitoring Surveillance, which was heldin Abuja on Tuesday. Utsev said the Roadmap was an opportunity to change the poor narrative of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) indices in the country. According to…

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Water Sector: APC group commends Buharis Achievements

Ishaku Yohanna

Godwin Amunde The APC Legacy Awareness and Campaign, (APC-LAC) a voluntary think-tank group of the governing party, said President Muhammadu Buhari has recorded groundbreaking achievements in the water sector. The group argued that the President Buhari-led administration has inherited and completed dozens of projects in the water sector abandoned prior to 2015. In a statement released on Wednesday in Abuja and signed by the quartets of Barr Ismail Ahmed, Lanre Issa-Onilu, Tolu Ogunlesi, and Salihu Moh Lukman, the group said the administration, following a 2016 technical audit identified 116 inherited projects for…

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