Despite achieving the milestone of becoming open defecation-free, a Nigerian state grapples with ongoing sanitation challenges.
Despite UNICEF's endorsement, Nigeria 's only open defecation-free state struggles with human faeces.Governor Bala Muhammad, has shelved his plan to site the headquarters of a proposed chiefdom for the Sayawa people in Tafawa Balewa town. There has been a long-standing dispute among the various ethnic and religious groups over the creation of the chiefdom and the seat of its traditional ruler.
Governor Muhammad had at a stakeholders meeting held at the Banquet Hall of the Government House, announced that the headquarters would be in Tafawa Balewa, a town claimed by other groups. He said communities not of Sayawa extraction are free to decide whether to remain in the proposed chiefdom or to be moved elsewhere. He stated their choices would be determined through a referendum to be conducted by the Bauchi State Independent Electoral Commission (BASIEC) within the stipulated period. Mr Mohammad said the state government would appoint a paramount ruler for the chiefdom, to be known as the “Gunn Zaar,” with his seat in Tafawa Balewa.The NSCIA in a statement signed by its Secretary-General, Is-haq Oloyede, a professor, warned that the move risks threatening the peace of the are
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