40 die in Aba highway crash

From Iyabo Lawal, Ibadan

A GALE of deep wailing tore the air at Bola Ige and Alesinloye Markets in Ibadan, Oyo State yesterday following reported deaths of 40 people, including 22 traders from the two markets, in an auto crash along Aba-Onitsha highway.



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One of the survivors, Moses Olufayo, who is currently recuperating in a private hospital said the traders had gone to the textile market at Aba, Abia State and were returning when the accident occured.

While 22 of the traders died on the spot, survivors were rushed to St. Dominic Catholic Hospital, Ogungbade, Ibadan where medics are battling to save their lives .

Olufayo, who sustained cervical fracture, said the bus conveying the traders had a head-on collision with an Aba-bound bus.

Another survivor identified as Ade said the auto accident could have been averted if the two drivers had exercised some degree of patience.

Meanwhile, the wife of the senator representing Oyo Central Senatorial District, Ayoade Adeseun Tola has donated N.5 million to the hospital for a surgical operation for Olufayo, who needs the operation to avoid a complete paralysis.

Medical Director of the Catholic hospital, Dr. Taiwo Obisesan, assured that the hospital would do all within its power to ensure that the victim does not become paralysed.

http://odili.net/news/source/2012/feb/23/7.html

First things first: may their souls rest in peace. They died for no fault of theirs as I reckon that three factors namely bad roads, DUI by one, or DUI by the other driver, might have caused the accident.

That said, is it not interesting to note that Yorubas travel all the way from the SW to buy goods in Aba for resell in the SW?

Most likely these same goods were imported by Igbo traders via Lagos port and Yorubas have to travel down to the East to buy and take back to their land.

Lesson of the day: Igbos who invest elsewhere because of a phantom market have no clue what they are doing. Even if your ware is in a cave and you are the only one having it, buyers will come looking for you right in your cave.

Are Yoruba people now buying ankara cloths from Aba? Quite interesting! Better than importing them from Switzerland.


So unfortunate they lost their lives in the process.

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Nchara:

40 die in Aba highway crash

From Iyabo Lawal, Ibadan

A GALE of deep wailing tore the air at Bola Ige and Alesinloye Markets in Ibadan, Oyo State yesterday following reported deaths of 40 people, including 22 traders from the two markets, in an auto crash along Aba-Onitsha highway.

Nchara:


While 22 of the traders died on the spot, survivors were rushed to St. Dominic Catholic Hospital, Ogungbade, Ibadan where medics are battling to save their lives .

Do you mean that the accident happened on Aba- Onitsha high? And the Survivors were rushed to a Hospital In Ibadan? . . . . . . . . You mean they rushed the survivors about 778Km. . . . . . . . .Are they no hospitals in the East again?

chosen04:

Do you mean that the accident happened on Aba- Onitsha high? And the Survivors were rushed to a Hospital In Ibadan? . . . . . . . . You mean they rushed the survivors about 778Km. . . . . . . . .Are they no hospitals in the East again?

That question should go to the reporter Iyabo Lawal of The Guardian Newspaper. Most likely the survivors were in a fairly stable condition. I had been involved in an accident along the East-West road just before Yenagoa. I had significant surface injury but we still drove to Ibadan before seeing the doctor.

BTW, when I lived in Ibadan, I also noticed many Yoruba traders going to the East to buy stuff but it did not mean anything to me until I came to Nairaland

^^^

People come all the way from Ghana to buy goods in Onitsha and Aba. Like you said, the idea that you have to invest outside Igboland to access to the market elsewhere is false.

Nigerians travel far and wide to trade, the goods could not have been imported via Lagos. My mum and I traveled to the North to buy goods when we were young, it is the trading instinct in our peoples.

hercules07:

Nigerians travel far and wide to trade, the goods could not have been imported via Lagos. My mum and I traveled to the North to buy goods when we were young, it is the trading instinct in our peoples.

As far as I know, all the things Igbos go to Lagos to buy are bought from Igbo business men in Lagos. Can you think of anything that Igbos travel to the SW to buy from a Yoruba person? I would like to know.

BTW, Igbo traders outside Igboland also travel to Igboland to buy goods

If they are travelling to Aba to purchase goods imported through Lagos, well that seems very inefficient.

@OP

I do not care if a person travels to Mamfe or Idi-araba, network of roads should be upgraded and maintained. This is an exemplary outcome event when we do not cry and demand services from the government with one voice as Nigerians. A road in the east should be as good as the road in the west, north or south.

Nonetheless, the article reeks of Nigeria big time. It is not even Aba-Owerri road or Owerri-Onitsha but Aba-Onitcha road.

Dede1:

@OP

This is an exemplary outcome event we do not cry and demand services from government with one voice like Nigerians.

Nor be cry the people don dey cry for donkey years so? People don cry sotey eye nearly commot. The government is deaf to the people's weeping and blind to their plight.

@Topic
This is just horrible.

@Nchara

Kolanut, Cocoa and other things only sold by Yoruba people, SW people only go outside of their region to buy what those people have in abundance, going to buy goods imported via Lagos does not make sense, first of all, one of your brothers would have offered it to them right there in Ibadan and will just charge a premium as he is saving them from travelling to aba (afterall his container can pass through Ibadan and cut off at ife towards Ore and Eastwards, also, other yorubas would have bought it from your people in Lagos thereby acting as middle men, the traders have come to buy what is local to you guys and have a market for it shikena.

hercules07:

@Nchara

[s]Kolanut, Cocoa and other things only sold by Yoruba people,[/s] SW people only go outside of their region to buy what those people have in abundance, going to buy goods imported via Lagos does not make sense, first of all, one of your brothers would have offered it to them right there in Ibadan and will just charge a premium as he is saving them from travelling to aba (afterall his container can pass through Ibadan and cut off at ife towards Ore and Eastwards, also, other yorubas would have bought it from your people in Lagos thereby acting as middle men, the traders have come to buy what is local to you guys and have a market for it shikena.

Cocoa to be used for what? What would Igbos use cocoa for? There is no value-adding cocoa processing company in Igboland or anywhere in Nigeria, except for multinationals like Cadbury, Nestle and Lever Brothers (choco milk makers) whom am not sure where they get their cocoa from but whom in any case have their factories in Lagos/Agbara. In any case, cocoa is grown in abundance in Abia and Imo. Indeed, there are 14 cocoa growing states in Nigeria. As for kolanut am also not sure. There are oji Igbo (Igbo kola) trees everywhere in Igboland. I will let other Igbos here weigh in on this one.

hercules07:

@Nchara

Kolanut, Cocoa and other things only sold by Yoruba people, SW people only go outside of their region to buy what those people have in abundance, going to buy goods imported via Lagos does not make sense, first of all, one of your brothers would have offered it to them right there in Ibadan and will just charge a premium as he is saving them from travelling to aba (afterall his container can pass through Ibadan and cut off at ife towards Ore and Eastwards, also, other yorubas would have bought it from your people in Lagos thereby acting as middle men, the traders have come to buy what is local to you guys and have a market for it shikena.

This is the mindset I had alluded in my previous post. You would be surprise the volume of goods that are not imported through port at Lagos. Yaoundé, Cameroon, Calabar and Port Harcourt, Nigeria are seaport often and quietly used by Ndigbo.

The moment the natural deepwater seaport is completed in Akwa Ibom State or the construction of Opobo (Opu Obu) seaport, Lagos will see less than usual traffic volume of imported stuffs.

Where did this accident happen. I'm seeing Aba and Oyo everywhere.

Everybody knows that the whole tribes in Nigeria travel to ABA for business same as onitsha,

May their souls rest in peace.
@Nchara easy bro allow peace for once

executinal:


@Nchara easy bro allow peace for once

What does this mean? Would you rather I throw bombs than discuss facts?

A dead Ibo is worth more to Nigeria than a living Ibo. buncha mo/r/o/ns

igbaodun:

A dead Ibo is worth more to Nigeria than a living Ibo. buncha mo/r/o/ns

hw many monikas do u have? worthless bunch

igbaodun:

A dead Ibo is worth more to Nigeria than a living Ibo. buncha mo/r/o/ns

another lunatic ve crawled out of his dirty cave.

guy take one shot of Otapiapia and end your misery already

ekt_bear:

If they are travelling to Aba to purchase goods imported through Lagos, well that seems very inefficient.

Unlike their Igbo counterparts, they cannot do more than their finances permit: they are not financially capable of international trading. We are talking about average Yoruba traders, not Tinubu, Otedola, Adenuga and the other rich Yorubas.

There is something about people from OYo state.
E be like say na dem dey trade pass.

Go to Orlu market na dem full there dey follow sell food stuff. Dem dey speak igbo like say tomorrow no dey.

Some of their men are into building houses.

I still laugh at those mo/ro/ns who say Yoruba no dey go SE.
Go to Aba and Umuahia and see the population of yoruba.

The ethnicity of the person should not matter, what matters is the horrible state of Eastern roads.

Nchara:

Unlike their Igbo counterparts, they cannot do more than their finances permit: they are not financially capable of international trading. We are talking about average Yoruba traders, not Tinubu, Otedola, Adenuga and the other rich Yorubas.

How can it be cheaper to go all the way to Aba to buy goods imported through Lagos?

That is insanity.

I am wondering what they actually went to buy there.

EzeUche:

The ethnicity of the person should not matter, what matters is the horrible state of Eastern roads.

Spot on, Bro

this is sad

40 people died and the OP is too bigoted to reason. What an ideeiot

Hmm, insensitive of me too to get distracted by this guy's agenda.

RIP to the dead.

ekt_bear:

Hmm, insensitive of me too to get distracted by this guy's agenda.

RIP to the dead.

are you minding the ideeiot

it is like each time a yoruba who does not even know that NAIRALAND and ideeiots like him exisit, the ideeiot feels happy.

When I talk they would say Alj harem is bad but you notice how none of them cautioned him.

[size=13pt]No sensitivity, Lack of compassion, pure wickedness[/size]

but if na Igbo now, they would come here shout nwannem this Gburuburu that. Let me here anyone talk wen I start my turn

I mean not 12 or 15 people but 40!!!! just like that.