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| Re: A Visitor To Onitsha Marveled At The Concentration Of Highrise Buildings by NigerianSage: 9:46pm On Apr 20, 2020 |
ogenyi1: www.nairaland.com/attachments/5535356_cracks1_jpeg1d491ab30bff0af18de8dcc8ac3d8287 www.nairaland.com/attachments/5535357_cracks3_jpegfe073bd3110e1c3eaf2ee3d550600d8f www.nairaland.com/attachments/5535358_cracks2_jpegb7c83461acd888f4ec1780c44d5a5ddd www.nairaland.com/attachments/5535359_cracks_jpeg987e4c42e7eeb9b84d212523344a882d www.nairaland.com/attachments/5536748_br_jpegc8117c630082344e94d7be0bf2d0edc6 www.nairaland.com/attachments/6515274_fbimg1515257544802_jpeg7ab599e711f29cc8b8b0ec23f36d1372 . Onitsha, World's Dirtiest City      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 – as do other rapidly growing Nigerian cities such as Kaduna, Aba and Umuahia, all of which also featured in the WHO’s 20 worst offenders for PM10s. 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. https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2017/feb/13/polluted-onitsha-nigeria-perpetual-dust-city-world-worst-air ^^^^^^^^ that's what the UN said about your dirty and stinking village.. 3 Likes |
| Re: A Visitor To Onitsha Marveled At The Concentration Of Highrise Buildings by NigerianSage: 9:46pm On Apr 20, 2020 |
Anambralstson: www.nairaland.com/attachments/5535356_cracks1_jpeg1d491ab30bff0af18de8dcc8ac3d8287 www.nairaland.com/attachments/5535357_cracks3_jpegfe073bd3110e1c3eaf2ee3d550600d8f www.nairaland.com/attachments/5535358_cracks2_jpegb7c83461acd888f4ec1780c44d5a5ddd www.nairaland.com/attachments/5535359_cracks_jpeg987e4c42e7eeb9b84d212523344a882d www.nairaland.com/attachments/5536748_br_jpegc8117c630082344e94d7be0bf2d0edc6 www.nairaland.com/attachments/6515274_fbimg1515257544802_jpeg7ab599e711f29cc8b8b0ec23f36d1372 . Onitsha, World's Dirtiest City 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 – as do other rapidly growing Nigerian cities such as Kaduna, Aba and Umuahia, all of which also featured in the WHO’s 20 worst offenders for PM10s. 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. https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2017/feb/13/polluted-onitsha-nigeria-perpetual-dust-city-world-worst-air ^^^^^^^^ that's what the UN said about your dirty and stinking village.. |
| Re: A Visitor To Onitsha Marveled At The Concentration Of Highrise Buildings by NigerianSage: 9:47pm On Apr 20, 2020 |
^^^^^^^^^^^World's most polluted slum, onisha. |
| Re: A Visitor To Onitsha Marveled At The Concentration Of Highrise Buildings by Ayekotoo(m): 9:47pm On Apr 20, 2020 |
No high rise buildings in Igbo land. I need fact not fabricated and counterfeit stats from IPOB. This is high rise built by Mike Adenuga's daughter Bella Disu.
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| Re: A Visitor To Onitsha Marveled At The Concentration Of Highrise Buildings by ogenyi1: 9:47pm On Apr 20, 2020 |
He is pained now he is posting fake and unfounded rubbish. Ekoile I spit on your bare head 
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| Re: A Visitor To Onitsha Marveled At The Concentration Of Highrise Buildings by NigerianSage: 9:48pm On Apr 20, 2020 |
Ayekotoo: www.nairaland.com/attachments/11396359_4_jfif_jpegdd39183bf561c28a299d78ec653f7557 This is their high rise in onisha.  1 Like |
| Re: A Visitor To Onitsha Marveled At The Concentration Of Highrise Buildings by ogenyi1: 9:49pm On Apr 20, 2020 |
This is not to insult Ibadan yet, but this is the present out of Ibadan. Lol 1 Like
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| Re: A Visitor To Onitsha Marveled At The Concentration Of Highrise Buildings by Sctests: 9:49pm On Apr 20, 2020 |
MetaPhysical: Natural disasters just as we have in Japan. Brown roofs, muddy houses, nylon-shit flinging in Ibadan and oshogbo are not natural disasters but man-made catastrophes... 1 Like
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| Re: A Visitor To Onitsha Marveled At The Concentration Of Highrise Buildings by ogenyi1: 9:50pm On Apr 20, 2020 |
We are not yet posting the bad side of Ibadan, this is just how the good side of Ibadan looks 2 Likes
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| Re: A Visitor To Onitsha Marveled At The Concentration Of Highrise Buildings by NigerianSage: 9:50pm On Apr 20, 2020 |
ogenyi1: You don't recognize your own dirty and polluted village and abomination flyover? |
| Re: A Visitor To Onitsha Marveled At The Concentration Of Highrise Buildings by ogenyi1: 9:51pm On Apr 20, 2020 |
Ibadan should be bombed into the ground lol 1 Like
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| Re: A Visitor To Onitsha Marveled At The Concentration Of Highrise Buildings by ogenyi1: 9:52pm On Apr 20, 2020 |
NigerianSage: Why should I be bothered when I know that there's no such place in Anambra as a whole
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| Re: A Visitor To Onitsha Marveled At The Concentration Of Highrise Buildings by ogenyi1: 9:56pm On Apr 20, 2020 |
Even oshogbo is not left out from mud houses and rustic roofs. Yoruba land as a whole is so backward 1 Like
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| Re: A Visitor To Onitsha Marveled At The Concentration Of Highrise Buildings by Anambralstson: 9:57pm On Apr 20, 2020 |
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| Re: A Visitor To Onitsha Marveled At The Concentration Of Highrise Buildings by ogenyi1: 9:59pm On Apr 20, 2020 |
Abeokuta is not left out, in fact the whole of Abeokuta is covered with mud houses and rustic roofs . See this short video . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnDCVOaIX4I |
| Re: A Visitor To Onitsha Marveled At The Concentration Of Highrise Buildings by NigerianSage: 10:00pm On Apr 20, 2020 |
Dirtiest slum in the world..
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| Re: A Visitor To Onitsha Marveled At The Concentration Of Highrise Buildings by InternalAuditor: 10:01pm On Apr 20, 2020 |
ogenyi1: Chai. So Abeokuta is like Ibadan too
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| Re: A Visitor To Onitsha Marveled At The Concentration Of Highrise Buildings by InternalAuditor: 10:02pm On Apr 20, 2020 |
ogenyi1: Ewoo. Oshogbo na rural area, that place na worse version of Ibadan |
| Re: A Visitor To Onitsha Marveled At The Concentration Of Highrise Buildings by InternalAuditor: 10:02pm On Apr 20, 2020 |
| Re: A Visitor To Onitsha Marveled At The Concentration Of Highrise Buildings by Anambralstson: 10:03pm On Apr 20, 2020 |
NigerianSage: Osun Airport now grazing land for Fulani hernsmen after spending 3.5 billion on the project 1 Like
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| Re: A Visitor To Onitsha Marveled At The Concentration Of Highrise Buildings by InternalAuditor: 10:03pm On Apr 20, 2020 |
ogenyi1: Cha this is worrisome that the present day Ibadan is like this. Shame |
| Re: A Visitor To Onitsha Marveled At The Concentration Of Highrise Buildings by Moneywomen17(m): 10:04pm On Apr 20, 2020 |
Anambralstson:say what recycled. My pix is strictly Abeokuta. |
| Re: A Visitor To Onitsha Marveled At The Concentration Of Highrise Buildings by Nobody: 10:06pm On Apr 20, 2020 |
Anambralstson:So you mean you cannot show me a single highrise in Onitsha! For your info, that was built in the 1950s, few years after your ancestors were brought down from the tree unclad, and showed the way to Southwest to go have a taste of civilization. 1 Like |
| Re: A Visitor To Onitsha Marveled At The Concentration Of Highrise Buildings by NigerianSage: 10:09pm On Apr 20, 2020 |
onisha is jungle on earth, the world's most polluted city... smh..
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| Re: A Visitor To Onitsha Marveled At The Concentration Of Highrise Buildings by Anambralstson: 10:09pm On Apr 20, 2020 |
NigerianSage: 1 Like
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| Re: A Visitor To Onitsha Marveled At The Concentration Of Highrise Buildings by NigerianSage: 10:10pm On Apr 20, 2020 |
gomojam: He can not show you anything because there's non to show.. |
| Re: A Visitor To Onitsha Marveled At The Concentration Of Highrise Buildings by dukeprince50: 10:12pm On Apr 20, 2020 |
Seetto:want to ask, has people started living in eko Atlantic? Or isn't still under construction? |
| Re: A Visitor To Onitsha Marveled At The Concentration Of Highrise Buildings by NigerianSage: 10:12pm On Apr 20, 2020 |
[quote author=Anambralstson post=88671263][/quote] Welcome to Onitsha: the city with the world’s worst air The title and championship goes to your world famous onisha dirty and polluted slum.
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| Re: A Visitor To Onitsha Marveled At The Concentration Of Highrise Buildings by Anambralstson: 10:12pm On Apr 20, 2020 |
gomojam:We can't repeat you guys mistake, it's not how far it's how well. Ibadan is world largest slum city |
| Re: A Visitor To Onitsha Marveled At The Concentration Of Highrise Buildings by Anambralstson: 10:17pm On Apr 20, 2020 |
NigerianSage:Demelo your backward state Osun is second moSt dirtiest state in Nigeria
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| Re: A Visitor To Onitsha Marveled At The Concentration Of Highrise Buildings by Nobody: 10:17pm On Apr 20, 2020 |
NigerianSage:of course I know he is an empty vessel, I just wanna give him a chance to prove himself. |
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