More people have access to mobile phones than toilets in Nigeria - UNICEF

More people have access to mobile phones than toilet facilities in Nigeria, UNICEF’s Chief of Water Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH), Zaid Jurji, has said.

Speaking yesterday at a two-day media dialogue on European Union (EU) Niger Delta Water Project in Port Harcourt, River State, Zaid said it is important for Nigeria to triple her investment in water sanitation and hygiene to achieve the SDG water and sanitation target of 2030.

Quoting the Nigerian Communication Commission (NCC) report released in January 2018, Zaid said 140 million Nigerians have access to telephone facilities while only 97 million have access to toilets facilities. He added that though people need a cell phone because it has improved a lot in the area of communication, hygiene is most important to environmental and human health.

South Africa Highest court grants approval to private use of cannabis

South Africa’s highest court on Tuesday legalized the use of marijuana in private places.  Pro-marijuana activists who include members of the Rastafarian movement and traditional healers greeted the ruling with loud applause. They have held marches over the years to demand that the law allow people to smoke ‘weed’, which is called ‘dagga’ in South Africa.

In a unanimous ruling read by Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo, the Constitutional Court decriminalized home consumption, saying “the use of cannabis must be for the personal consumption of the adult”. The ruling also approved growing marijuana for personal consumption.