Old colonial documents have pointed to onitsha always having a large Hausa community

^I have always said it. Onitsha is a "no man's land" just like Lagos and Abuja and even PH.

Schematics:
Now that Onitsha is calm and serene hope they will not take advantage of our cool-headed for cowardice. Although the security situation in the city is top-notch. I do not expect any crisis anymore.

Ndigbo are hospitable by nature, you know we believe in the principle of--- live and let's live. Major crisis in Alaigbo is as a result of reprisals and even the strangers in Alaigbo know this and pray against killings of Ndigbo in their homelands too.

Ikengawo:
Old colonial documents have pointed to onitsha always having a large Hausa community

Other ethnic groups in Onitsha owning property is actually a welcomed idea.

My take is that since the city is such a cosmopolitan melting pot of various ethnic nationalities, the federal government should be more involved in its development they way they treat Lagos, Kano,Abuja,Kaduna and many other places. Let the federal government site more facilities in the area to foster national unity. Such move will encourage other ethnic groups to buy land, build houses and even inter marry with the Igbos.
It is the constant marginalization of the Igbos that discourage even great business moguls like Dangote from investing in the SE region.

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Myluv1:

I don't think it's any of that, though it extends to Inland town. It's basically a road linking Upper Iweka to Inland town

Oguta road extends from upper Iweka to the junction between Awka road and Upper market road, it traverses Woliwo left and right onward to Menax road junction i. e before CKC, immediately after the junction, CKC area by the left is Odoakpu and the right is inland town up to DMGS roundabout. So that road cuts across three suburbs within Onitsha.

One of the CCTV installed at main market, was kind of scared snapping this one though.
The CCTV is on the second pole after that with a solar panel.

Normal hustle along Sokoto road, main market

A new plaza being built along new market road

Yeske2:
Oguta road extends from upper Iweka to the junction between Awka road and Upper market road, it traverses Woliwo left and right onward to Menax road junction i. e before CKC, immediately after the junction, CKC area by the left is Odoakpu and the right is inland town up to DMGS roundabout. So that road cuts across three suburbs within Onitsha.

Exactly.

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That plaza by the left, that is Nottidge street by new market road was completed some months back and fully booked already

It is very clear that the whole of West Africa and beyond comes to this Trading Center (Main Market). The huge capital inflow and population is a pointer to that because more and more people are still investing in plazas/malls.

Yeske2:
That plaza by the left, that is Nottidge street by new market road was completed some months back and fully booked already

Thanks for all your contributions, other area we need to cover and debate on are: health sector, education sector, pipe borne water, transport and security. These areas are key to our development, I knew that Obi's administration did well in health, education and he tried to revive great Onitsha water scheme I don't know how far with the project? Our hospitals: Anambra state university teaching hospital Awka, Iyi enu Hospital Ogidi, Heart & kidney dialysis centre Onitsha, Onitsha general hospital, Borrome Hospital Onitsha, Nnamdi Azikiwe university teaching hospital Nnewi, newly built open heart surgery centre Adazi and other mission and general hospitals, nursing schools etc. Our working governor also need to focus on them also on education, I went through government house Amaobia last two months I saw red BRT buses packed and the new bustop they are fixing, sign posts, traffic lights, he is trying to improve our transport sector, if we can get pictures from health sector, eduction etc on this thread It be great.
One love!

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Schematics:
It is very clear that the whole of West Africa comes to the Trading Center (Main Market). The huge capital inflow is a pointer to that because more and more people are still investing in plazas/malls.

Fact but those across don't seem to understand this.

FKO81:
Thanks for all your contributions, another areas we need to cover and debate on are: health sector, education sector, pipe borne water, transport and security. These areas are key to our development, I knew that Obi's administration did well in health, education and he tried to revive great Onitsha water scheme I don't know how far with the project? Our hospitals: Anambra state university teaching hospital Awka, Iyi enu Hospital Ogidi, Heart & kidney dialysis centre Onitsha, Onitsha general hospital, Borome Hospital, Nnamdi Azikiwe university teaching hospital Nnewi newly built heart surgery centre Adazi and other missionary and general hospitals, nursing schools etc. Our working governor also need to focus on them also on education, I went through government house Amaobia last two months I saw red BRT buses packed and the new bustop they are fixing, sign posts, traffic lights, he is trying to improve our transport sector, if we can get pictures from health sector, eduction etc on this thread It be great.
One love! 

A low for Obi anyway, he was way too religious, preferring mission schools and hospitals to government funded institutions but he's good.

Main market during christmas season.. Always a heavy influx of people into Onitsha, all headed to Main Market!! If you are not certified fit enough to push through the crowd for hours just to buy few items, just don't go beyond Bright street, cos if you dare step into Lagos Line, Cooperative line and the likes... Your name go be sorry

Haruna street, normal hustle, I know that guy with load on his head, ezigbo nwa ugwu. Nka bu olu fa ebe'a

Yeske2:
A low for Obi anyway, he was way too religious, preferring mission schools and hospitals to government funded institutions but he's good.

Let us not debate about Mr.Obi he is past and he did his best. One love!

Myluv1:
Main market during christmas season.. Always a heavy influx of people into Onitsha, all headed to Main Market!! If you are not certified fit enough to push through the crowd for hours just to buy few items, just don't go beyond Bright street, cos if you dare step into Lagos Line, Cooperative line and the likes... Your name go be sorry

Thank God you understand, i for swear for anybody wey tell me to enter Lagos line

FKO81:

Let us not debate about Mr.Obi he is past and he did his best. One love!

He's the best and he promised us someone better than him which he did, we dey the same boat

This is Lagos line main market. I personally took this pix last Easter when I went to shop with madam. But xmas shopping is the greatest here with even larger population coming for shopping from all parts of the country and beyond. Capital inflow coming into main market on daily basis is so much..

Yeske2:
Thank God you understand, i for swear for anybody wey tell me to enter Lagos line

Yeske2:
A low for Obi anyway, he was way too religious, preferring mission schools and hospitals to government funded institutions but he's good.

There is nothing like being too religious, it is rather being realistic and practical.
Here's a quote from an article:

According to Peter Obi, “Do not let anyone deceive you. This country is rich enough to fund education at all levels. All we need to do is cut down waste.” He went on to tell us the battles he fought to ensure schools were handed over to their original owners and how he ensured it was not a mere hand over, but guaranteed funding for forty years. He did a mapping in which he realized the Catholic Church owned more than 400 schools, the Anglican more than 300, and the government about 250, and devised a sharing formula based on that distribution. I was so amazed at the extent of distributive justice he displayed, how the state ministry of education got less because it had fewer schools, and how the church boards got more because they had more schools. And according to him, the results were there to see: while the missions applied their money successfully, government bureaucracy and corruption often resulted in poor outcomes.

Before now whenever I read in the newspapers about the millions of naira Obi gave the Catholic and Anglican Churches, I would have a concern. I kept wondering whether there was a legal framework, whether he was just being magnanimous. I kept asking myself, what would happen when he left office? Would his successor continue with this magnanimity? It was such a delight therefore to learn that the very first step he took was to ensure the House of Assembly passed a bill, which he signed, into law.

And that was what happened last Friday when Obiano doled out the sum of N1.9billion to mission schools in the state for the 2014 UBE projects- N433 million Catholic and N300 to the Anglican while N1.082 billion is in the custody of Anambra State UBE Board for funding public primary and junior secondary education.
Governor Obiano said the fund allocated to each mission was based on the number of schools that government had returned to them. He confirmed that funds released to the Church by his predecessor were judiciously utilized which encouraged his administration to sustain the policy.

Continue..

Indeed he (Obi) told us a funny story how the erosion control project in one of the schools was valued by government at more than 50 million Naira, and the principal of the school, a Catholic nun, valued the work at about 20 million Naira; he asked his officials to give the principal the 20 million naira but they refused because it would go against ‘financial guidelines of the state.’ He insisted and the money was given, and the work was done to great satisfaction, with the 20 million Naira!

Schematics:
This is Lagos line main market. I personally took this pix last Easter when I went to shop with madam. But xmas shopping is the greatest here with even larger population coming for shopping from all parts of the country and beyond. Capital inflow coming into main market on daily basis is so much..

I bet you can't try Lagos line now, so bloodied so crowded.

Yeske2:
I bet you can't try Lagos line now, so bloodied so crowded.

I was about 15 before I was allowed to go with my dad to the market for xmas shopping. The pushing was so intense and I literally started crying

@mylove1, I'll get you pix of government institutions and those of missions, Obi tried, no doubt but he had this streak of bigotry in him. Hopefully, Obiano wouldn't fall for it too .

Myluv1:

There is nothing like being too religious, it is rather being realistic and practical.
Here's a quote from an article:


And that was what happened last Friday when Obiano doled out the sum of N1.9billion to mission schools in the state for the 2014 UBE projects- N433 million Catholic and N300 to the Anglican while N1.082 billion is in the custody of Anambra State UBE Board for funding public primary and junior secondary education.
Governor Obiano said the fund allocated to each mission was based on the number of schools that government had returned to them. He confirmed that funds released to the Church by his predecessor were judiciously utilized which encouraged his administration to sustain the policy.

Continue..

There is a reason why roads cost less to build in Cameroon, Benin Republic than in Nigeria. Even though we have the same soil and terrain. In Nigeria, corruption have eaten so deep that even the construction companies are in a cartel of their own inflating every construction project.

Obi did good by involving the churches in building up the education and healthcare sectors. The so called good old days in education and quality healthcare were the days before government took over those sectors from the churches. Obi was right to correct that historic injustice and also help them bring those schools and hospitals to world class standard again.

cjrane:


Other ethnic groups in Onitsha owning property is actually a welcomed idea.

My take is that since the city is such a cosmopolitan melting pot of various ethnic nationalities, the federal government should be more involved in its development they way they treat Lagos, Kano,Abuja,Kaduna and many other places. Let the federal government site more facilities in the area to foster national unity. Such move will encourage other ethnic groups to buy land, build houses and even inter marry with the Igbos.
It is the constant marginalization of the Igbos that discourage even great business moguls like Dangote from investing in the SE region.

I'm ok with the idea as well. I don't think a group can or will ever dominate Igbos in their land so there's no harm and adds to the city depending on the group. Hausas have even moved into my village and they have brought premium suya

Yeske2:
Thank God you understand, i for swear for anybody wey tell me to enter Lagos line

I can only imagine what resources and patronage being lost by traders in Lagos line simply by having such narrow alleys for customers to shop. Systemic improvements to remedy these types of handicap is usually beyond our people. Especially those that believe they are making enough already.

Schematics:
This is Lagos line main market. I personally took this pix last Easter when I went to shop with madam. But xmas shopping is the greatest here with even larger population coming for shopping from all parts of the country and beyond. Capital inflow coming into main market on daily basis is so much..

My brother I just remember my experience in main market, I went to market on 24th December around 12 noon to buy my Xmas shoes, they where shouting "after today no more till next year" my brother the crowd was something else, I saw my size and pay the security men started disturbing them to close their shops the guy mistakenly gave me left left unfortunately for me I didn't check, because people were pushing me when I got home I realized that one was wrong foot, I was short of words, then I remembered "after today no more till next year" I went to the market the previous year I couldn't identify the shop I felt bad, although it was his mistake, I try to correct it.

Limca road