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SPECIAL REPORT: Inside Akwa Ibom Communities Where Abandoned NDDC Water Projects Cause Pain
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When construction workers and equipment arrived Ifa Ikot Okpon community in Akwa Ibom State in 2011, Etteidung Udo was filled with joy. Mr Udo was then a member of the village council but is now its h...
Non-existent, Uncompleted: Story Of Nigerian Senator’s Constituency Projects
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Vivian Chioma, 20, slung a black school bag across her shoulder as she walked out of a classroom at Umu Ogbo-Inyi Community Secondary School in Igbo Eze North Local Government Area of Enugu State, whe...
INVESTIGATION: How Abandonment Of Multi-million Electricity Projects By NDDC Keeps Akwa Ibom Communities In Darkness
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It was a cloudy morning in mid-October when this reporter entered a beer parlour at Inyang Itor community in Ibeno Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State, South-south Nigeria. He asked for bottled w...
SPECIAL REPORT: Inside Abandoned, Uncompleted Constituency Projects Of Enugu Senators
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It had just rained that Wednesday morning in July as this reporter and his fixer drove in a Toyota Corolla car to Enugu in southeastern Nigeria to track the constituency projects of federal lawmakers...
INVESTIGATION: How Oil Spill Contaminates River, Destroys Livelihoods In Akwa Ibom Community
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On July 3, 2019, Nsopikpo Afia took his bundles of fishing net, put them on his canoe and left the Uton riverbank at Iwochang community in Ibeno Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State to fish in the...
SPECIAL REPORT: Communities Groan As Erosion Ravages Farmlands, Threatens Food Security In South-east Nigeria
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On a sunny Thursday afternoon in October in Ifite Nanka, a town in Orumba North Local Government Area of Anambra State in South-east Nigeria, Felicia Okpara sat on a chair, taking a nap in a stall in...