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Went and seated in there vilages


Bola Oyebamiji
CEO NIWA Said it himself
about 3days ago
Onitsha is Africa most Viable Business Hub
It have been proven

2022
NIWA CEO then Muoghalu
Said 65% of Cargos Berthing across all
Nigeria Sea Ports end up in South East
Onitsha and Aba particularly ,,


Onitsha Market
Is largest in Africa with
Over 5m dairy visitors and over $5b
Annual turnover ,,


Asaba from population Explosion
is enjoying it proximity with
Onitsha Africa most viable business Hub
Connecting Okpanam Ogwashi Ubulu to Ibusa
Etc ,,,


Nobody is running away from Onitsha
Otherwise the city shouldn't have host
Africa largest markets,,


This article was written from place of propaganda driven by envy


NIWA visited Senate Comitee about 3 or 4 days ago listen to what they are saying about Onitsha.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UO866n32bt8?si=thQ9Yr05vKR35YkZ



Igbos established Africa largest Markets
Bring in more goods into Igboland
Eventhough the Seaport is in Lagos

Igbos travele for Exmas yoruba dont
but u are here asking how many Igbos traveled
Like u didn't see how congested and Busy
East road was during Exmas














NIWA Statics Showed
About 65%

adecz:


This current insecurity In SE is still
a child's play.

Wait make dem get Biafra. By that
time, 50% of igbos will run 🏃‍♂️ 🏃‍♀️ away
back to Nigeria.

Igbo people can never be united to form
the viable political structure of a country or
nation.

In fact, every Igbo billionaire will insist on
being president and their followers will fight
themselves to death..

Give them 3 years of Biafrahood and Igbo
against Igbo civil war will start.

gidgiddy:


Not as blind as those whononly remember insecurity if it has to do with South east while their own backyard is on fire

Ok. At least the SW is not the place where people are forced to sit at home on Mondays or get killed

adamusuleiman3:

Following the persistent insecurity that has taken its toll on the Southeast region, affecting businesses, individuals, and school children, many indigenes from communities and towns in the region are now terrified and are relocating to other nearby states where they feel safer.

Besides violent agitators, cultists, and kidnappers, the violent activities of youths if not checked, would be worse than the activities of gunmen who kidnap, rob, and sometimes on extreme assassination missions, kill and behead their victims.

Many have taken their destinies into their own hands and decided to relocate to safer places to avoid sad stories.

While Anambra and Imo States seem the worst hit, other states in the region are also affected in various degrees.

According to investigations, micro businesses in Nigeria’s Southeastern states lost an average of N4.618 trillion ($10.495 billion) in one year to the sit-at-home order that the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, imposed on the region.

While the South East governments battle to stem the raging violence in the region, individuals are taking their destinies into their own hands.


Asaba and nearby towns to the rescue

Eloka Obi recently relocated his building materials business and his family from Awka to Asaba to resettle.

According to Eloka, nobody crosses the Niger Bridge on a Monday. People who travel on Mondays usually cross the Niger Bridge a day before to Asaba from where they made their trips or wait till Tuesday. Those entering the South-East cross the bridge on Sundays and other days but not on a Monday. Criminals officially use Mondays to operate publicly in the South-East.

“Gradually, people are beginning to understand that it makes more sense living in Delta, Rivers, Cross River, and Akwa Ibom than living in the South-East. If you are living in Onitsha or Awka, your best bet is Asaba and if you are living in Imo or Abia, your best bet is Rivers or Cross River. We are taking our destinies into our own hands. Those who are staying in the South-East region have also devised other means of survival.

“People don’t reveal their movements to others. People don’t move in exotic cars and those who do especially those who came home during Christmas moved with plainclothes security officials. People dress down. They avoid public places and paying visits or letting people visit them anyhow. Everybody is coded and movements are coded. People are discreet in their movements and when you see somebody during the daytime, chances are, they will relocate to sleep elsewhere by night. Some sleep in hotels and never the same hotel all the time. They code how they move and that is what insecurity has done to the region,” Eloka revealed.

“In Asaba which is my new home, a lot of people have relocated and have even into neighbouring towns near Asaba. There are many people from South-East states now living in Asaba and the number increases every day. People try to minimize having to cross the Niger Bridge into Onitsha. Land is now expensive in Asaba and it’s funny when people from the South-East zone say they are travelling home but end up in their new family houses in Asaba from where they connect to kith and kin in the South-East. When you hear people like Senator Ned Nwoko advocating for Anioma State as the sixth South-East state, just know he is making sense. Many Igbo have left their homes in the South-East and built homes in other places nearby.

“There is insecurity everywhere, even in Asaba here. How far can you run from home? The only thing is that gunmen attacks are not here. There is no sit-at-home. My business opens every day as I want it. When I was in Onitsha, my customers sometimes had problems coming into Onitsha on Mondays. I usually meet them halfway by bringing goods to keep at Asaba so they won’t have the problem of Monday’s sit-at-home. When I found out it favours them that way, I opened a branch of the business at Asaba while keeping the main branch at Onitsha.

But I relocated my wife and children because I’m not comfortable with my children missing school every Monday. Asaba is also Igbo but it’s part of Delta State and the South-South. This thing we are saying is not a joke. Some relocated up to Benin City and Lagos because business is what we are known for. If you recall, Cubana Chief Priest relocated a business from Imo to Lagos due to insecurity. If you go to any community in Nigeria or even the whole of Africa and you don’t see an Igbo businessman, just run for your life.

Also commenting on the issue, Mrs Ego Eriya, a landlord in Asaba said the city is the new Abuja. “People are coming into Asaba in droves from across the Niger. I don’t know if it’s due to insecurity but they are relocating their businesses and families. There are movements from across the Niger into Asaba and so many projects going on.”

Living in South-East had been horrifying—Chekwas Okorie

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2025/01/insecurity-how-asaba-became-home-to-south-east-indigenes/

These movements and relocations of families from dangerous spot to relatively safer towns or cities isn't NEW as those of us who are older know that back in the late 1990s to the 2000s, when a lot of insecurity such as vicious armed robberies attacks on residential areas and luxury buses, kidnappings for ransom and more hit the South East of Nigeria especially under the former Governor Mbadinuju of Anambra State, some Igbo men especially from Anambra and Abia States relocated their family members and trading outfits to other Nigerian cities such as Port Harcourt, Lagos Stste, Ibadan, the FCT, Asaba, Calabar, etc. This is why there was a sharp spike in the presence of Igbos living in these cities or locations. I remember over 10 years ago before he became a Governor, Alex Otti told a newspaper how a friend of his based in Aba had to close down his factory and relocated to Lagos State because Lagos State was safer (then under Governor Babatunde Fashion and his fantastic Lagos State Security Trust Fund OR LSSTF which incidentally had the first Chairman as the current Governor Babajide Olusola Sanwo-Olu of Lagos). I ALSO read an article back in the 2000s of a young Anambra guy based in Lagos State who had to move his elderly parents from Anambra because elderly parents in the villages were being relentlessly targeted by Kidnappers for ransom with millions of Naira being paid by their Lagos-based children to secure their release, and after the payments, those bloody criminals still killed some of those elderly people.

It's the Vanguard correspondent in the East of Nigeria that conducted this interview with known Igbos such as the politician, Chekwas Okorie and CLEARLY Asaba was mentioned SEVERAL times in the article as a town where some Anambra residents who can afford it have moved their families to contrary to the putrid and highly irresponsible LIES that some soulless trolls on Page 1 of this thread were telling to deflect attention from the topic and derail the thread. Some of the Igbo folks in the article commended the Enugu State Government for ensuring good security BUT suggested that Anambra and Imo are the worse hit by insecurity.

That simply means the governors have failed to protect their people. Only self interest. The federal government also knows what to do to stop the insecurity but the political elites will not support it for personal gain and popularity.

Airlord2030:
Igbo man dey disguise

Yes I am a grateful igboman.

Mind ur brown roof region.

DeltaOil:

Yes I am a grateful igboman.

Mind ur brown roof region.

you should face your landlocked tiny igboland and stop attaching to SS

Obaaderemi2:
Ok. At least the SW is not the place where people are forced to sit at home on Mondays or get killed

There are millions of people in IDP camps in the North who wish they could sit at home, but armed bandits are now sitting in their homes.

Insecurity in Asaba is increasing rapidly. All the miscreants from across are running there

You ofcourse...always obsessing over their activities and comments..

Face your life and don't be stagnant in foolishness.

Sharpsharp00123:
who takes an Ibo serious

Broveens42:
How Owerri became a model city and dream residency for visitors

You are always deceiving yourself with this glorified village called Owerri. Is this not Owerri?

Airlord2030:
Igbo man dey disguise

You wish
Lol you have no idea how Ahaba and Anioma people carry Igbo for head

There's a reason why they were massacred during the Biafran war

They're a very powerful Igbo town

Nde Ahaba

Southeastern states lost an average of N4.618 trillion ($10.495 billion) in one year to the sit-at-home order that the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, imposed on the region.

Very unfortunate!

ValarDoharis:
There's something about Igbos that Nigerians talk about them everyday!

Gbam! Gbamsolutely! Let them keep following us up and down. South East this, Igbos that. See Asaba that Onitsha urban spilled into more than 15 to 20 years ago. Crime is committed everywhere in Nigeria. Make we hear word biko

kettykin:
At the rate Asaba is growing, I will not be surprised if in the next 20 years it overtakes Lagos . The potential is undeniable—especially if Deltans play their cards right and transform it into West Africa's undisputed banking and media capital.

Imagine this: Zenith, UBA, Fidelity, and Access Bank teaming up to make Asaba the beating financial capital of the region, rivaling even Victoria Island. Then picture the media giants—ThisDay, Guardian, Ray Power, Arise TV—setting up sleek studios and newsrooms, turning the city into Nigeria’s version of Atlanta.

Then the nollywood wood team can build studios and other theme park, this will be boosted with the scenic views of river niger etc
The blueprint is there. All that's left is the audacity to execute.

Asaba is expanding, many real estate businesses are cashing out. I tell you.

gidgiddy:
The South East remains the safest place in Nigeria. Forget propaganda, everyone has their own security challenges, but no where is as safe the South East in Nigeria. The reports are out there

Why are you lying, still?

Sharpsharp00123:
typical Igbo, he's house will b burning but he will b chasing rat in d neighbor house

What are you doing on this post, if not to chase rat while your own house is burning.

Sharpsharp00123:
but people are running away from d safest region in Nigeria

When u Igbos are ready to tell yourselves d truth then u will b ready to solve your problems

The bolded is a fat lie and propaganda from you lots.

Airlord2030:
you should face your landlocked tiny igboland and stop attaching to SS

Af@nja face ur skull miners paradise

Asaba has been an Igbo territory long before Fredrick Lugard’s banny named this country ‘Nigeria’z

IkeIgboNiile:
Lol 😂 this post is completely funny. Igbos have lived in asaba before your grandparents were born.

As settler or when did Igbo become deltan.
Igbo should be ashamed of herself how many Nigerians you've seen in going to your region?

Shameless tribe.

Kafirbigot:
Asaba is ANIOMA...


It's already a SE enclave.


All these propaganda against IGBOs is so stale and most IGBOs are taking stock of the actions of the same people that will be shouting Southern Unity nonsense.

Even south west is Igbo land, cursed tribe.

..blood tears

Musrataman:


Even south west is Igbo land, cursed tribe.

guysbewise:
That was the same reason the first Igbos moved to and settled in Asaba long ago and were welcomed by the Benin Kingdom. This was before the Europeans came and created Nigeria

They always run away from their community and go settle in somewhere else before you know it they will start claiming indigen.

They are wasting their time in Nigeria.

Musrataman:


They always run away from their community and go settle in somewhere else before you know it they will start claiming indigen.

They are wasting their time in Nigeria.

They started their Bia**fraud war and decided the claim the whole of the South, thank God they were stopped by the rest of the south joining with the Nigerian Army to tame them back to their landlocked dot in the cicle.

Musrataman

As settler or when did Igbo become deltan.
Igbo should be ashamed of herself how many Nigerians you've seen in going to your region?

Shameless tribe.


Lol 😂 mad man, try leave osogbo for once in your life.

Thormentor:

You wish
Lol you have no idea how Ahaba and Anioma people carry Igbo for head

There's a reason why they were massacred during the Biafran war

They're a very powerful Igbo town

Nde Ahaba

from asaba down to agbor and the ika-igbo speaking communities of delta and Edo are proud igbos I am from anioma and we carry our igboness seriously even the British see something 4 our hand we are proud igbos period

IkeIgboNiile:
Musrataman

As settler or when did Igbo become deltan.
Igbo should be ashamed of herself how many Nigerians you've seen in going to your region?

Shameless tribe.


Lol 😂 mad man, try leave osogbo for once in your life.

when I was in Anambra I saw a lot of yorubas there and that was the first tym of me been in the east during my service year although I am an Igbo man from delta state I noticed that most people who talk like you haven't crossed ore(ondo state) before my advice to you is to travel more at least try visit delta state and stop hating on the igbos u are just doing your self and nobody else

Yomit71:

Asaba is no man's land

asaba is an Igbo land you can always come if you want to there are a lot of igbos, irobos, ijaws itsekiris and Yoruba from mostly (kogi state and olukumi) people doing things there without any wahala you are always welcome

Guys, does Monday sit at home still apply in South East? I have an appointment in Port Harcourt tomorrow and I am supposed to travel today from Asaba...Please I will like to know so I will know how to plan my movement.

kettykin:
At the rate Asaba is growing, I will not be surprised if in the next 20 years it overtakes Lagos . The potential is undeniable—especially if Deltans play their cards right and transform it into West Africa's undisputed banking and media capital.

Imagine this: Zenith, UBA, Fidelity, and Access Bank teaming up to make Asaba the beating financial capital of the region, rivaling even Victoria Island. Then picture the media giants—ThisDay, Guardian, Ray Power, Arise TV—setting up sleek studios and newsrooms, turning the city into Nigeria’s version of Atlanta.

Then the nollywood wood team can build studios and other theme park, this will be boosted with the scenic views of river niger etc
The blueprint is there. All that's left is the audacity to execute.

I agree with this, we need a different place for people to rush too as Lagos State and parts of Ogun state is over full.

I just hope those that are in charge of urban planning in Asaba do a better job in taking into account the influx of people.

I hope this becomes a reality.

IFSHA ANI ASABA LEH NDI NNINE BU NDI OGWU EGO, NA NDI NTOLI NMADU ,NA NDI OJOR NENE BIA EMEBI UDO AND AWULI NDI ASABA,ANI ASABA LE EH UNUNINE SE TA TA GA BA IFSHA