what will give Orlu the edge is an international market that makes leaving the SE for goodso obsolete. it is in the population and cutural nerve center of igboland
Aconomist: I've been hearing a lot of talk about Nnamdi Kanu's Eastern Security Network, but where is the action? When will the combat start --- do they need help locating the enemy?
Which Enugu has bad roads? Most of Enugu town has okay roads and comparing the roads there with Owerri is a case of light and darkness. Enugu has it's own issues but never road.
I'm still waiting for you to tell me the correlation between nightlight and beauty.
Jealous Igala Iweka man spotted. Dont let this cannibalistic fake igbos convince you that the worst part of Owerri is not better than the best part of onitsha or awka villages respectively
all international events are hosted in Owerri to represent the SE region. If not Owerri then Enugu. Nothing in Anambra because they are Igala minorities. I vote to move Alambala to the Middle Belt so that the SE pollution and cannibalism will decrease 98%
Incidentally there's no such place as that in the whole of Anambra, not to talk of Onitsha, but look at the present condition of the village called Owerri
nna the WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION has already declared Onitsha the SHITTIEST most POLLUTED CITY ON PLANET EARTH. the GLOBAL COMMUNITY has already looked at every city made by man kind and said Onitsha was the biggest shith0lio What can you say about Owerri? na your Nairaland account vs. the World Health Organization
1. Airport 2. Federal School 3. State School 4. Tourism (Owerri) 5. Tourism (Oguta) 6. Refinery 7. Oil 8. Gas 9. International Convention Center
Onitsha
Anambra: Restaurant Served Roasted Human Heads
On Thursday Onitsha police arrested 11 people after they discovered 2 fresh human heads in a hotel (name withheld) very close to the popular Ose-Okwodu market in Anambra state. Two AK47 rifles & other weapons were also discovered in the hotel. The arrest followed tip-offs from area residents on Thursday morning.
The hotel owner, 6 women and 4 men were arrested.
After police got access to the hotel, they made a startling discovery of two human heads wrapped in a cellophane bag, two AK47 rifles, two army caps, 40 rounds of live ammunition and so many cell phones.
“Each time I came to market, because the hotel is very close to the market, I always noticed funny movements in and out of the hotel; dirty people with dirty characters always come into the hotel. So, I was not surprised when the police made this discovery in the early hours of yesterday,” said a vegetable seller in the are
Welcome to Onitsha: the city with the world’s worst air
The Nigerian city has recorded the world’s worst levels of PM10 air pollution. But although the results are lethal, the problem is not taken seriously here
Suffocating planet: air pollution around the world today – live Hadassah Egbedi in Onitsha
Mon 13 Feb 2017 02.00 ESTLast modified on Mon 3 Feb 2020 07.50 EST Shares 286 Comments 163 Onitsha, Nigeria, the world’s most polluted city according to the World Health Organisation. For cities: air pollution Cooking fires and burning rubbish have contributed to record-setting levels of air particulates in Onitsha, Nigeria, according to WHO measurements made in 2016. Photograph: Hadassah Egbedi for the Guardian Approaching Okpoko market through thick smog on the back of an okada (motorcycle taxi), the natural reaction is to cover your nose to protect yourself from the dust storm – but the effort is futile.
When a lorry zooms past, kicking up yet another red cloud of dirt, a trader turns the head of a sleeping toddler away from the road, a protective act that is as poignant as it is pointless.
This is a typical day in the southern Nigerian port city of Onitsha – which last year gained notoriety when it was ranked the worst city in the world for the staggering levels of PM10 particulate matter in its air.
Onitsha’s mean annual concentration was recorded at 594 micrograms per cubic metre by the World Health Organization – massively exceeding the WHO’s annual guideline limit for PM10s of 20μg/m3.
PM10 refers to coarse dust particles between 10 and 2.5 micrometres in diameter, while PM2.5s are even finer and more dangerous when inhaled, settling deep in a person’s lungs. Sources of both include dust storms, gases emitted by vehicles, all types of combustion, and industrial activities such as cement manufacturing, construction, mining and smelting. Onitsha scores highly on most of the above.
In Onitsha’s very busy Okpoko market, my air quality monitor registers 140 for PM10s and 70 for PM2.5s – all way over recommended healthy levels, but still nothing compared to the readings triggered in other parts of this densely populated commercial and industrial hub.
The entire vicinity of the market is perpetually dusty, as wood-sellers saw lumber into different shapes and sizes. The air here is made worse by all the fine sand particles that fly off the back of trucks as they visit one of the many dredging companies on the bank of the River Niger, just behind the wood market.
Onitsha, Nigeria, the world’s most polluted city according to the World Health Organisation. Some residents of Onitsha are unaware of the dangerous levels of pollution. Photograph: Hadassah Egbedi for the Guardian One female traffic warden has been working in the same spot here for two days. How does she cope with the dust? “I am just doing my job,” she replies reluctantly. “Dust does not kill people.”
Sign up to the Green Light email to get the planet's most important stories Read more But she is mistaken. According to the United Nations Environment Programme (Unep), around 600,000 deaths throughout Africa every year are associated with air pollution, while an October 2016 report by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) suggested that polluted air could be killing 712,000 people prematurely every year across the continent.
The warden’s attitude towards this invisible but deadly threat is widespread among Onitsha’s residents – but not necessarily because they are nonchalant about their health. Most are simply unaware of the issue.
Some say they have more pressing concerns, such as how to feed their family. Others have simply become accustomed to living in a dirty and polluted environment.
Onitsha is grossly polluted – not just in terms of the air quality, but also the solid waste that litters the streets, blocking drainages and canals. With not a single waste bin in sight, heaps of unregulated rubbish dumps occupy roadsides and street corners.
TEDHorsePower: Since 1999 till date your backward shithole Abia is yet to have a governor but you are busy going from thread to thread advising states that are by far better than your dilapidated filthy shithole Abia state. When shall you useless Abia people be responsible and show concern in your own state. This is why Abia state is the worst and most backward state in Nigeria. Shameful
Go face your work. Awka is a village that will never compare to Umuahia and Aba is superior to Onitsha by all measures
10 Anambra communities lament as herdsmen destroy farmlands
The measure of intelligence is not the issue in this discussion. No language is a measure of intellect. Nigeria's language of business is English therefore the kids must speak intelligible language to the majority of Nigerian citizens.
in the north business is done in Hausa. the issue is you ppl are slaves and cannot comprehend using your own words to think and talk
Alhaji Muhammadu Kirowa, National President of the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN), has said that Fulani Leaders are responsible for the rise of Insecurity in Nigeria. According to Vanguard, Kirowa stated this at the inauguration ceremony of North-Western States executives of MACBAN held in Dutse.
He added that Fulani leaders were responsible for the spate of insecurity in their domain as they allowed youths to go on rampage against other citizens.
The President, who could not hide his anger at the occasion, explained that it is a common fact Fulani` are victims of various forms of persecutions and criminality due to what he described as “dearth of own media by the Fulani to express their voices.”
He said, “Before any other person gets kidnapped, about twenty or more Fulani people must have suffered the same fate with payment of ransoms, which no media had bothered to report or investigate in the past.
“We have to tell ourselves the truth that we have failed in our responsibility of giving our children the right training and good upbringing that ought to have shaped them for better people.
“We cannot continue to wallow in denial when it is a fact that majority of criminals arrested across the country are from within us, our kith and kin who have gone into this circle because if our sheer negligence.”
Kirowa, who is also the Ardon Zuru, stated further that the ball is now on the court of leaders and the rest of the Fulani societies to either unite and provide their children with a better home training and education or continue to strain the name of the tribe to ineptness.