Countdown to #onitshamediahangout . Where else would
you be on May 1 holiday?, come and hangout with people
from your city at Novo lounge

ONITSHA SOCIAL MEDIA HANGOUT is an event that'll bring
social media savvy people in Onitsha & beyond together. It's
really necessary that we put Onitsha City on the social
media map. 1st May, 2018 @ Novo Lounge, Onitsha Mall.
#Onitshamediahangout

It is really necessary that we put our city on the social media map.

The event is proposed for 1st May, 2018 at the Novo Lounge, Onitsha Shopping mall

This is a rundown of what the programme will be like

ONITSHA SOCIAL MEDIA HANGOUT
Proposed Programme of the day
• Meet and greet
• BODY PAINTING/MUSIC
• Chit-chat 1 (rules on social media)
• MUSIC
• Connecting……..
• Chit-chat 2 (money on social media)
• MUSIC
• NETWORKING…….
• CHIT CHAT 3 (PUSHING ONITSHA TO LIMELIGHT)
• GAME
• SNACK TIME/MUSIC
• TRUTH OR DARE
• FUN FUN FUN………



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I wish the forthcoming social media convention a success.

ultimatetimestv:
I wish the forthcoming social media convention a success.

thanks fam

And the show was a blast ystday. Pictures loading

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The team organized a charity Saturday at the popular MCC flyover bridge in Onitsha on June 2nd 2018

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Pictures loading later. There will a another hangout by the team this Saturday 23 June 2018. We are giving Onitsha the good publicity is deserves

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Onitsha urban metropolis has been duly recognized as one of the most populated and Built up urban (not necessarily "most developed" areas in the world. In a article published by DEMOGRAPHIA titled Demographia World Urban Areas (Built up Urban Areas of World Agglomerations) : 14th Annual Edition. http://www.demographia.com/db-worldua.pdf .
The rankings by the World body put Onitsha as the 49th Largest Built-Up Urban Areas in the World by Population in 2018 with estimated population of 7,850,00 million people and as the 47th Largest Built-Up Urban Areas in the World by Land Area.
A built-up area is an area such as a town or city which has a lot of buildings in it
Built-Up Area or Plinth Area - Total covered area of the apartment or commercial property unit. It can be calculated by adding areas of utility ducts within property unit, internal and external walls to the carpet are. As a rule of thumb, built up area can be calculated by adding 10% loading factor on carpet area.
The Onitsha metropolitan urban areas include :
> Onitsha Urban (Onitsha North and South LGAs)
Fegge, Inland Town, Omagba, Akpaka ,GRA
> Okpoko
> Nkutaku/Ogbaru Metro
> 3/3 Area
> Obosi/ Awada / Ugwuagba / Odume Layout
> Nkpor Area up to Ugwunwasike/ New Tarzan
>Nsugbe Urban
> Nkwelle Ezunnaka Urban
> Ogidi Urban
Population and Urbanization are usually key criteria investors put into consideration when studying a location for potential investments. Onitsha has evolved from a crime-ridden Market city to a more modern urban Economic centre in the country. Investors investing in diverse sectors in the city are now getting their ROI in record time. There have been recent influx of multinational companies, large scale industries, media houses (especially radio stations,increasing from just one station to over 16 commercial radio stations covering the metropolis in just 6 years), and other businesses.
The state government in foresight mapped out industrial hubs in Onitsha with the major ones : Harbour Industrial Hub and Odume Industrial Layout with hundreds of industries abound.

Onitsha is well known to be the economic nerve of South Eastern Nigeria and the second largest Trade and Commercial city sub sahara Africa after Lagos despite limitations ofminimal governmental presence in the city especially at the federal level. A functional cargo airport and river port will really do the city a whole lot of good in every sense of it.


@porschethane @onitshametro

#onitshasocialmedia

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#TheRealEndTime
#PlasticPollution

Onitsha may contribute immensely to the destruction of the Earth through plastic pollution.

Water is one the basic elements that make the earth conducive for human existence.

The earth is majority of water - 75% water, 25% land. All Rivers and their content (including plastic wastes) find their way into the ocean.

Plastic is non-biodegradable (it doesn't decay) therefore remains within the ocean for years.

Apart from the fact that fishes feed on the plastic and we in turn feed on the fishes - indirectly, you are eating plastic! - water cycle may bring back plastic in all forms of water you drink.

Which other end time is greater than eating and drinking plastic?

A recent survey says that most plastics in the earth's ocean comes from ten Rivers (our River Niger is #8!).

On the River Niger, Onitsha is the most populated city and the amount of plastic disposed into the River is quite alarming.

Plastic bags (waterproof/nylon) used in Onitsha in a day can be enough to cover the whole Nigeria! (Surprised?) The "waterproofs", "pure water" sachet, "takeaway" packs etc going into the River Niger from Onitsha contributes to the over 1 Billion tons of plastic that goes into the ocean every year.

With the rate of plastic going into the ocean, in years to come fishes would die off and possibly, we wouldn't have any water on earth...consequently, the human race would be wiped off and our earth may cease to exist!

#SaveTheEarth
#OnitshaCity
#CleanAnambra
#OnitshaSocialMedia


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Timeline of Onitsha City Development (19th century)

1830s – First British explorers – The lander Brothers (Richard and John); MacGregor Laird arrive Onitsha. Laird Port was established.

1850s – Dr. William Baike (Scottish explorer and naturalist) may have arrived Onitsha as he mentioned in his

1854 book “Narrative of an Exploring Voyage up the Rivers Kwora and Binue”. His name “Baike” would become synonymous to the English Language in Igbo – Bekee.

1857 – British vessel(Commanded by Baike), Dayspring anchors at Laird Port, Onitsha to established in British Trade Station in Onitsha. Ajayi Crowther established the CMS mission; W.B Baike would speak to the Obi of Onitsha, Akazue, for the British Government; Captain Grant would negotiate for commerce. Freed Sierra Leonean-Igbo Slave, Rev. John Christopher Taylor would remain in Onitsha to run the CMS mission and starts educating the natives. The area along the River Niger was mostly uninhabited as the Onitsha main town was about 2 – 3 miles from the Waterside.

November 23 1857 – Odoje – Umudei clash over land. Other internal disputes occurred due to disagreement with where to allocate for trading with the Sierra Leoneans.

Late 1857 – Otu Nkwo (present-day Main Market) was founded around the British trade Station to accommodate the Sierra Leonean traders, European traders, later Hausa-Nupe traders (the great influx of these Northern elements was highest towards the end of the 19th Century) and the native Onitsha traders. This brought the first feeling of a cosmopolitan Onitsha.

Jan – Feb 1858 – Onitsha-Ogidi war. The two towns had had clashes from the previous year. The Onitsha people had more casualties.

April 1858 – First Onitsha man – Okosi – converts to Christianity under Rev. J.C Taylor.

1860s – A number of Onitsha people had convert to Christianity and had embraced education. Most people educated during this era would later become indigenous figures in colonial Nigeria.

1873 – Smallpox breaks out in Onitsha. Most people that were saved were the native educated Christians that lived at the Waterside. Many Onitsha people would convert to Christianity during this period.

1874 - Obi Akazue dies. The new king, Obi Anazonwu would see the development of Onitsha from just a small town to a British territory.

1879 - George Taubman Goldie, a British administrator cum businessman sought to unite all British interest on the Niger into one company thus, the founding of the United African Company (UAC) with headquarters in Onitsha.

1879 – British war boats under G.T Goldie bombard and destroy Onitsha due to the assault the European residents reported from the natives.

Late 1870s - Omu Nwagboka (known as the Queen of Onitsha), the leader of the market women in Onitsha would oversee the European trade within Onitsha.

Early 1880s - French companies established in Onitsha making it difficult for the British to have territorial rights over Onitsha.

1885 - French missionaries arrive Onitsha. Led by Rev. Fr. Lutz, the Roman Catholic French missionaries met with Obi Anazonwu.

1885 - the British would lay claims to Onitsha during the Berlin Conference. They had earlier bribed the French companies in the Niger out.

1886 - German agent, Herr Hoenigsberg, sent by Otto Von Bismarck to disrupt activities of the National African Company (renamed from UAC in 1881) on the Niger and seek treaties between the Niger people and Germany was arrested in Onitsha. The Germans still fought to claim Onitsha up until 1890.

1886 - To avoid the Germans from taking over, the NAC would involve the British Government thereby renaming the National African Company to the Royal Niger Company. The British government would thereafter sign treaties with the local chiefs on the Niger including Obi Anazonwu of Onitsha.

1889 - the Royal Niger Company could no more resist the state-supported French and German protectorates. The revoked their charter.

1st January 1900 - the RNC sold off its territories £865,000 to the British Government, hence the fall of Onitsha to British rule under the Southern Nigeria Protectorate. British indirect rule begins in Onitsha as they install catechist, Samuel Okosi as Obi of Onitsha following the death of Obi Anazonwu in the previous year - 1899.

Timeline of Onitsha City Development (Colonial Era 1900 - 1960)

By the end of the 19th Century and early 20th Century, Onitsha City developed rapidly along the Niger: Onitsha had become a British Administrative town and hence British offices and European residents had started sprouting at the Ozalla – an area south of Onitsha, down to the Anambra River, and water through by the Nkisi Stream. The area was called “European Quarters” (Present-day GRA, Onitsha). The Sierra Leoneans and new Onitsha converts developed and lived in Ogbe Umu Onicha; the Hausas owned Ogbe Awusa; the Nupes lived in Ama Nupe while tribes of present-day Delta State inhabited Ogbe-Ijaw (Ogbe Ukwu). The Eastern Igbos came after the development of the new waterside city (Otu Onitsha).

1900 – Onitsha becomes part of the British colonial Southern Nigeria Protectorate.

1902 – The Roman Catholic Mission had its first major success in the Inland Town as young Irish Priest, Fr. Joseph Shanahan establishes the Ogboli Mission. The Ogboli Mission would later grow to become present-day’s indigenous St. Mary’s Church.

1906 – The Southern protectorate united with Lagos and were divided into Eastern Province (Capital In Calabar), Central Province (Capital in Warri) and Western Province (Capital in Lagos). The Central Province included the Onitsha District (roughly all of Present-day Anambra State) and had a District Officer residing in the town and overseeing the district (there were Assistant District Officers though – One lived in Nnewi). The most popular D.O in Onitsha was Captain D. O’Connor.

c. 1906 – First Bridge built across the Nkisi Stream. The Marina road may have been constructed during the same period. Other roads constructed between 1906 and the 1920s are Old Market Road and New Market Road (connecting the trade points to the rest of the region), Egerton Road (named after Sir Walter Egerton Governor of Southern Nigeria), Moor Street (After first Governor of Southern Nigeria Ralph Moor), Venn Road (Maybe named after anti-slavery Anglican priest Henry Venn) etc.

1910s – American companies and missionaries arrive Onitsha. They developed and lived in the area north of the Ose Okwuodu Market and south of the Inland Town bordering the European Quarters. The area is till date called “American Quarters.”

1920s – Odoakpu develops. From the name, the place was originally a huge farm of cassava. But as the city expanded from the Waterside Odoakpu would be caught in the urban sprawl. Onitsha men, including sons of wealthy Onitsha man, Modebe, (Modebe Avenue bears the family name) began investing in real estate. Soon, Odoakpu had become the new quarters for neighboring Igbo towns, especially the Nnewi people who became the commercial gurus in the city.

1925 - First secondary school in Igboland Nigeria, Dennis Memorial Grammar School is established by the CMS. The school is named after Archdeacon TJ Dennis.

1930s – Fegge develops. As the population of Onitsha began increase with the rapid influx of the Eastern Igbos, the Government felt the need to plan a new layout. This new gridwork layout was built at the site the Nupes had stayed for decades. Fegge may be derived from the Nupe language but the Europeans called this area “Foreigners’ Layout”.

1933 - First Catholic Secondary school, Christ the King College is established in Onitsha by Archbishop Charles Heerey.

1942 - the First all girls mission school, Queen of the Rosary College opens in Onitsha.

1945 – After World War 2 (called Agha Burma in Onitsha and other parts of Igboland -since the British Nigeria joined the British Army and where positioned at Burma/Myanmar) , the Nigerian colonial administration was still dynamic. As at 1945, Onitsha Province existed (Most parts of present-day Anambra and Enugu States where under Onitsha). The Divisions under the Onitsha Province include Awka, Awgu, Onitsha and Nsukka Divisions. Other Provinces in Eastern Nigeria were the Owerri Province, Rivers Province, Calabar Province and Ogoja Province.

1949 – Onitsha Native Authority began a project to reconstruct Main Market. Before then the market lacked shops as the structures that scattered the whole place were just corrugated iron sheets roofed with palm mats. The market was getting congested, lacked organization and posed chaos on the city.

1952 – Government of Eastern Nigeria gives the approval for the reconstruction of Main Market.

1956 – the actual rebuilding of the Main Market began.
1958 - the city is enjoying self-goverance within the Eastern Region of Nigeria away from Britain.

Late 1950s - Onitsha has become a model. Apart from the Otu Onitsha (Waterside city) region, the Enu Onitsha (Inland Town) has started developing rapidly with European styled buildings within the town. The present-day principal axis from the DMGS roundabout - Awka Road, Oguta Road, Upper New Market Road and Ozalla Road - was already in place. A Road (possibly Old Enugu-Onitsha Road) has connected Onitsha to the now Coal-rich Capital of the Region Enugu. The Water works was already functioning up the Nkisi Stream, providing water for the Onitsha municipality. Parks, hotels and clubs makes the city lively. Preparations are being made to construct a bridge over the Niger to connect the Eastern and Western Regions in Onitsha and Asaba respectively. The system of crossing over the River Niger is by the use of ferries or cheaper Ponteau raft (logs of woods that may float in water)

1960 - Nigeria gains independence as Onitsha celebrates her great son, Nnamdi Azikiwe.

Timeline of Onitsha City Development (Post Independent – Civil War 1960-1970)

October 1960 – Onitsha is part of Independent Nigeria.

1960 – Onitsha – Obosi land tussle gets intense. Many casualties recorded.

December 1965 – The Niger Bridge is completed and commissioned. The construction started in 1964 by French company, Dumez, cost £6.75 Million.

May 27th 1967 – The Federal Military Government divides Eastern Nigeria into three to cut the power of the Igbos. The new states became Rivers State, South Eastern State and the Igbo-secluded East Central State. Onitsha would fall into the East Central State with her son, Anthony Ukpabi Asika becoming the Administrator.

May 1967 – Onitsha is part of an “independent” Biafra. The Governor of Eastern Nigeria, Chukwuemeka Ojukwu, had a fallout with the Federal Military Government and would declare his territory independent of Nigeria.

6th July 1967 – The Federal Government declares war on Biafra. Fear grips the residents of Onitsha. Most European presence in Onitsha was evacuated by the Federal Government. Those that refused to leave the city were forced to do so.

September 1967 – Niger Bridge burns. As the Nigerian Army matched to occupy the Mid West, retreating Biafran soldiers had to restrict their movement into the east by burning down the Niger Bridge and trapping them at the Asaba side of the Niger. Most residents of Onitsha deserted the city for safer places further inland.

October 1967 – The Nigerian Army, under Murtala Mohammed, crossed over on boat to Onitsha from Asaba. They burnt Onitsha main market to the ground and looted valuables from the market. As they were doing this the Biafran army had more time to take position and attack the Nigerian soldiers. This event was the termed “the First Onitsha Invasion” and was victorious on the Biafran side.
November 1967 – USSR-aided Nigeria warplanes began flying and bombing towns around Onitsha.
March 1968 – The Second Onitsha Invasion. With the failure of the Nigerian side to win over Onitsha, they retreated to the West before crossing back east of the Niger at Idah in January 1968. From Idah, Murtala Mohammed led the Nigerian side to Enugu. After getting Enugu down, they proceeded West to Awka en route Onitsha. They finally reached Onitsha in March 1968 and after a fierce battle, the Biafran side was forced to retreat to Nnewi. Onitsha fell to the Nigerian side.

1970 – War ends. Onitsha had been devastated. The markets had been burn to the ground; houses shattered. Returnees to the city were broken. The Federal Government would, through the Administrator Asika, try rebuilding the city. The richest man in the city had £20. The beginning of a “new Onitsha”!

Short Story by Ozoekwe Dominic Ifesinachi 07032909591 This is a story highlighting the social issue of Environmental Pollution. Ada and Uche are in traffic in Onitsha, a densely populated city southeast Nigeria. Looking at the amount on "waterproof" waste on road and in the gutters, Ada said to Uche "Onitsha may contribute immensely to the destruction of the Earth through plastic pollution. These waste in the gutters flow into the Niger and find their way into the Atlantic ocean. Plastic is non-biodegradable therefore remains within the ocean for years". Uche nodded and said "Apart from that, fishes feed on the plastic and we in turn feed on the fishes and water cycle may bring back plastic in all forms of water you drink. Which other end time is greater than eating and drinking plastic". " My dear, its terrible. I read somewhere that, the "waterproofs,pure water sachet,takeaway" going into the River Niger from Onitsha contributes to the over 1 Billion tons of plastic that goes into the ocean every year". "What?, With this rate worldwide, in years to come fishes would die off, water cycle is impeded. Human life is in trouble". "I think one little solution to slow this is that people stop throwing waste into the gutters and on the road. General use of paper bags instead of plastic bags will help too". "Yes, paper bags will decay easily and also I think the gutter should cleared regularly and the waste burned" . "So true Uche, these three solutions we just said will go a long way to balance the ecosystem here". "Yes o,only if our people implement them" . Uche replied as he turned on the car radio to listen to the hourly news update.