The unpleasant situation of household sanitation in Nigeria calls for prompt
attention. Access to safe water, Method of Refuse Disposal and Toilet Types are some
of the household sanitation variables to be investigated. This research aims at studying
a possible positive improvement in percentage of Access to safe water over a long
period of years, and to verify if there is a significant relationship between mortality rate
and household sanitation among the states in Nigeria. With the use of the secondary
data gathered from the General Household Survey report by National Bureau of
Statistics (NBS), and the application of STATA 8 and MINITAB 15, the difference in the
percentage of Access to safe water is not significant. The regression analysis showed
high significant relationship between Crude Death Rate (CDR) and Bad Refuse
Disposal Method, while the time series plot exposes the upward trends in CDR for
Kano, Benue, Jigawa and Imo states, and downward trends for Lagos, Yobe, Kwara,
kogi, Abia, Niger, Osun, Ondo, Ogun and FCT (Abuja). This study, therefore,
recommends that the governments at all levels should devise a better and more
hygienic means of disposing household refuse in order to reduce the CDR, especially at
this time when the country plans to be one of the first twenty (20) nations with largest
economy by the year 2020.