{"id":919541,"date":"2022-01-25T17:27:09","date_gmt":"2022-01-25T17:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/news\/2022\/01\/25\/buhari-signs-agreement-to-end-open-defecation-by-2025\/"},"modified":"2022-01-25T17:27:09","modified_gmt":"2022-01-25T17:27:09","slug":"buhari-signs-agreement-to-end-open-defecation-by-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/25\/buhari-signs-agreement-to-end-open-defecation-by-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Buhari Signs Agreement To End Open Defecation By 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_836653\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-836653\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-836653 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/president-muhammadu-buhari-expresses-condolences-to-the-family-of-the-five-year-old-school-girl-hanifa-abubakar-whose-body-was-discovered-in-a-shallow-grave-in-kano-state-600x390.jpg\" alt=\"Buhari Signs Agreement To End Open Defecation By 2025\" width=\"600\" height=\"390\"  \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-836653\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Buhari<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>President Muhammadu Buhari has signed an agreement to end open defecation in the country by 2025.<\/p>\n<p>In renewing Nigeria\u2019s commitment to ending the scourge, the President signed a pledge card on Tuesday in his office, in the presence of the Minister of Water Resources, Engineer Suleiman Adamu.<\/p>\n<p>Buhari had on November 20, 2019 signed an Executive Order 009 entitled, \u2018The Open Defecation-Free Nigeria by 2025 and Other Related Matters Order\u2019 to eliminate the practice of open defecation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Also Read:\u00a0Buhari Launches National Policy On 5G, Says It Will Address Insecurity<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The drive to end open defecation is in line with Nigeria\u2019s commitment to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria is ranked second among nations in the world with the highest number of people practicing open defecation, with those involved estimated at over 46 million.<\/p>\n<p>The President described the statistics as disturbing and declared a commitment to implement the National Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) Action Plan.<\/p>\n<p>He also declared a State of Emergency on Nigeria\u2019s water supply, sanitation, and hygiene sector.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Buhari President Muhammadu Buhari has signed an agreement to end open defecation in the country by 2025. In renewing Nigeria\u2019s commitment to ending the scourge, the President signed a pledge card on Tuesday in his office, in the presence of the Minister of Water Resources, Engineer Suleiman Adamu. Buhari had on November 20, 2019 signed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-919541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=919541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=919541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=919541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=919541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}