It is essential to clean our environment; sanitation is vital to students’ daily lives because it promotes a healthy lifestyle and academic performance. Sanitation is essential to students’ lives; it leads to student’s activeness and success in class. Students must maintain teir health since healthy students naturally perform better than sick ones. Having proper sanitation systems in place is one method to maintain a healthy lifestyle. The degree of cleanliness and healthy living students would achieve would depend on their environmental sanitation attitude and practice. Therefore, the study investigated the attitude and practice of hostel sanitation activity among the students of Olabisi Onabanjo University Ago-Iwoye. Two hundred (200) participants were selected for the study using a convenient sampling technique. A self-structured questionnaire was the instrument used to elicit information from the respondents: (A) collected demographic information of the participants, while (B) Attitude and Practice Questionnaire (APQ, r=0.80) was used and were validated before administration. The findings revealed that there is relationship between students’ knowledge and attitude towards hostel sanitation practices among students of Olabisi Onabanjo University living in campus hostel is relatively low. The study recommended that adequate sanitation facilities and equipment’s should be provided in all school hostels.

Keywords: Sanitation, Knowledge, Practice, Hostel