Every community prays for access roads to attract development and ease livelihood. In 2016, the Enugu State government constructed a nine-kilometre road network from Obechara, Ugwuechara down to Ikenga Hotels junction. Ben Aroh, in this report, portrays how this celebrated road has endangered Umuwalugwu village in Umakashi community of Nsukka LGA.
Enugu State has 68 development centres spread across the 17 local government areas of the state. Most of these centres have become comatose despite having salary-earning workers and administrators assigned to them. The decaying state of these centres is the focus of this report by Ben Aroh.
Ben Aroh investigates how electoral violence and the subsequent refusal of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to conduct a runoff as enshrined in the 2022 Electoral Act disenfranchised over 10, 000 voters during the March 18 2023 guber elections in Enugu State. Affected LGAs
Simon Ekpa, self-styled leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), in a viral video, imposed sit-at-home and curfew on South East and some parts of old Eastern Region during the 2023 general elections. His orders span from February 23rd to 28th 2023. Nigeria’s presidential and National Assembly elections hold on 25th Feb. 2023. Ben Aroh examines how such orders might disenfranchise eligible voters in the region. Background