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Re: A Visitor To Onitsha Marveled At The Concentration Of Highrise Buildings by NigerianSage: 10:17pm On Apr 20, 2020
Anambralstson:

We can't repeat you guys mistake, it's not how far it's how well. Ibadan is world largest slum city




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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 Anambralstson: 10:20pm On Apr 20, 2020
Osun most dirtiest state in Nigeria

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Re: A Visitor To Onitsha Marveled At The Concentration Of Highrise Buildings by NigerianSage: 10:23pm On Apr 20, 2020
gomojam:
of course I know he is an empty vessel, I just wanna give him a chance to prove himself. grin grin



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This is their highrise.


They are all lying crooks, I know them very well. grin grin grin

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Re: A Visitor To Onitsha Marveled At The Concentration Of Highrise Buildings by Moneywomen17(m): 10:23pm On Apr 20, 2020
Anambralstson:
Osun most dirtiest state in Nigeria
just look at ur source pulse ng lol. Can u compare it world reputable organization that said for a fact onitsha is the dirtiest city in Nigeria.

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Re: A Visitor To Onitsha Marveled At The Concentration Of Highrise Buildings by Anambralstson: 10:24pm On Apr 20, 2020
Awka

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Re: A Visitor To Onitsha Marveled At The Concentration Of Highrise Buildings by NigerianSage: 10:26pm On Apr 20, 2020
Anambralstson:
Osun most dirtiest state in Nigeria


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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..




The title for the worlds' most polluted slum is Onisha

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Re: A Visitor To Onitsha Marveled At The Concentration Of Highrise Buildings by InternalAuditor: 10:26pm On Apr 20, 2020
Anambralstson:

Demelo your backward state Osun is second moSt dirtiest state in Nigeria

Re: A Visitor To Onitsha Marveled At The Concentration Of Highrise Buildings by Nobody: 10:27pm On Apr 20, 2020
Anambralstson:

We can't repeat you guys mistake, it's not how far it's how well. Ibadan is world largest slum city
Stop shifting goal post. This is about high rise building in Onitsha. At least you ought to have a single one in Onitsha even if uncompleted before you can have the audacity to shade the Yorubas for the dilapidated one in Ibadan that was built few years after your ancestors were clothed.

Now, Show Me a single highrise building in Onitsha.

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Re: A Visitor To Onitsha Marveled At The Concentration Of Highrise Buildings by Ayekotoo(m): 10:27pm On Apr 20, 2020
11 Plc expands operation, acquires Lagos Continental Hotel

Re: A Visitor To Onitsha Marveled At The Concentration Of Highrise Buildings by Moneywomen17(m): 10:28pm On Apr 20, 2020
Anambralstson:
Awka
am certain this are the only good looking place u can show. U have been posting same pic for several years now lol.

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Re: A Visitor To Onitsha Marveled At The Concentration Of Highrise Buildings by Anambralstson: 10:29pm On Apr 20, 2020
Onitsha

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Re: A Visitor To Onitsha Marveled At The Concentration Of Highrise Buildings by ogenyi1: 10:29pm On Apr 20, 2020
Jungle cheesy

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Re: A Visitor To Onitsha Marveled At The Concentration Of Highrise Buildings by Moneywomen17(m): 10:29pm On Apr 20, 2020
Ayekotoo:
11 Plc expands operation, acquires Lagos Continental Hotel

� confirm Yoruba business man
Re: A Visitor To Onitsha Marveled At The Concentration Of Highrise Buildings by Moneywomen17(m): 10:30pm On Apr 20, 2020
Anambralstson:
Onitsha
u do know u are just posting decent looking paved road right. What’s there.
Re: A Visitor To Onitsha Marveled At The Concentration Of Highrise Buildings by Ayekotoo(m): 10:31pm On Apr 20, 2020
Fashola commissions 30 billion naira Continental Hotel

Re: A Visitor To Onitsha Marveled At The Concentration Of Highrise Buildings by ogenyi1: 10:32pm On Apr 20, 2020
Moneywomen17:
u do know u are just posting decent looking paved road right. What’s there.


What's your point?
Re: A Visitor To Onitsha Marveled At The Concentration Of Highrise Buildings by Ayekotoo(m): 10:33pm On Apr 20, 2020
Moneywomen17:
� confirm Yoruba business man

The same hotel fashola commissioned not too long ago

Re: A Visitor To Onitsha Marveled At The Concentration Of Highrise Buildings by ogenyi1: 10:34pm On Apr 20, 2020
Ayekotoo:
Fashola commissions 30 billion naira Continental Hotel


See your own high rise in Ibadan, leave Lagos because it is not Yoruba making

Re: A Visitor To Onitsha Marveled At The Concentration Of Highrise Buildings by Ayekotoo(m): 10:36pm On Apr 20, 2020
No high rise like the listed ones here in the whole Alaigbo. Somebody help me if there is

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Re: A Visitor To Onitsha Marveled At The Concentration Of Highrise Buildings by Ayekotoo(m): 10:38pm On Apr 20, 2020
ogenyi1:



See your own high rise in Ibadan, leave Lagos because it is not Yoruba making

Who owns Continental Hotel if it's not a Yoruba man? I feel your pains.

11 Plc expands operation, acquires Lagos Continental Hotel

Re: A Visitor To Onitsha Marveled At The Concentration Of Highrise Buildings by Anambralstson: 10:40pm On Apr 20, 2020
Ayekotoo:
11 Plc expands operation, acquires Lagos Continental Hotel

Otondo NIPCO an Indian firm is major shareholder in Continental hotel, Anu go and check Transcop hilton hotel Abuja, Lagos and Akwa Ibom the owners

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Re: A Visitor To Onitsha Marveled At The Concentration Of Highrise Buildings by Moneywomen17(m): 10:42pm On Apr 20, 2020
ogenyi1:



What's your point?
my point is u are an slowpoke
Re: A Visitor To Onitsha Marveled At The Concentration Of Highrise Buildings by Anambralstson: 10:45pm On Apr 20, 2020
Ayekotoo:


Who owns Continental Hotel if it's not a Yoruba man? I feel your pains.

11 Plc expands operation, acquires Lagos Continental Hotel
Biggest Hotel in Nigeria

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Re: A Visitor To Onitsha Marveled At The Concentration Of Highrise Buildings by Moneywomen17(m): 10:46pm On Apr 20, 2020
ogenyi1:



See your own high rise in Ibadan, leave Lagos because it is not Yoruba making
comot for here na ipob making abi
Re: A Visitor To Onitsha Marveled At The Concentration Of Highrise Buildings by Anambralstson: 10:50pm On Apr 20, 2020
Ayekotoo:
No high rise like the listed ones here in the whole Alaigbo. Somebody help me if there is
Dilapidated structures under zero utilization, harboring bats and reptiles

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Re: A Visitor To Onitsha Marveled At The Concentration Of Highrise Buildings by Ayekotoo(m): 10:53pm On Apr 20, 2020
Anambralstson:

Otondo NIPCO an Indian firm control major shareholder in Continental hotel, Anu go and check Transcop hilton hotel Abuja, Lagos and Akwa Ibom the owners

Are they sited in Alaigbo? No. Definitely no high rise buildings in entire Igbo land. Thank you!

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Re: A Visitor To Onitsha Marveled At The Concentration Of Highrise Buildings by Sofistcatdmoron: 10:53pm On Apr 20, 2020
Seetto:

See this one, wey lamurdi cownu urine don rusticate in brain grin grin grin,, join with the sticking ass of your black Fulani slave master Atiku afrimpong. grin grin

In your dream Peter obi is Lagos State Governor..


Bros Lagos is bini land stop calling ibo people ,,
Hydraulic ewedu gubling moronic slave od cows grin
Re: A Visitor To Onitsha Marveled At The Concentration Of Highrise Buildings by Anambralstson: 10:57pm On Apr 20, 2020
Ayekotoo:


Are they sited in Alaigbo? No. Definitely no high rise buildings in entire Igbo land. Thank you!

Stop claiming others properties be proud of your backward states


21st century highrise located in Igboland

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Re: A Visitor To Onitsha Marveled At The Concentration Of Highrise Buildings by Ayekotoo(m): 11:02pm On Apr 20, 2020
Femi Johnson Broking House Ibadan

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Re: A Visitor To Onitsha Marveled At The Concentration Of Highrise Buildings by Ayekotoo(m): 11:03pm On Apr 20, 2020
I swear no such edifice in Alaigbo

Re: A Visitor To Onitsha Marveled At The Concentration Of Highrise Buildings by Ayekotoo(m): 11:05pm On Apr 20, 2020
Even if it's reptiles infested building, make una show us in Alaigbo grin grin

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Re: A Visitor To Onitsha Marveled At The Concentration Of Highrise Buildings by NigerianSage: 11:05pm On Apr 20, 2020
Anambralstson:

Biggest Hotel in Nigeria



Eko Hotel & Suites is the biggest hotel in Nigeria with 824 rooms and MICE (meetings, incentive, conference and events). This facility provides sufficient space to fit 270 exhibition booths; it also has the capacity to cater to dinner and conference events for up to 3,000.

https://nigerianhotelblog.com/2019/08/08/7-of-the-biggest-hotels-in-nigeria/


Eko Hotels is the largest hotel in Nigeria by far..

Why do you Igbos lie all the time? It's not that serious so stop lying.

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