Onitsha is the only city (outside major cities like Abuja and Lagos) that has a semblance of a human-occupied city in Nigeria. Other cities in Nigeria tend to sprawl out in low density animalistic slums, despite the massive demand for housing and high land prices. An Indian friend remarked to me that Nigeria is the only country where people will spend $100,000 to buy a plot of land in the city center and erect a one-story bungalow.

In his country, they build taller multi-story buildings to house as many people as possible on expensive land. Onitsha is the only city in sub Saharan Africa that looks similar to countries like India, China and Indonesia in the 70s before they modernized. The below image doesn't even look like Africa. It looks like China, Vietnam or Philippines in the 70s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xuh2JviB2M

You are right.

..... Op in the 70's

So how do other Nigerian cities looks like
If onistha has the looks of a City in the 70's

Onistha

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Nigercity:
So how do other Nigerian cities looks like
If onistha has the looks of a City in the 70's

Other Nigerian cities look like stone age settlements. Monkey cities.

Here is Ibadan for comparison.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkUYY2Ur8z0

Aconomist:
Other Nigerian cities look like stone age settlements. Monkey cities.

Lolz.....
Okay oh

Even the great Kano looks like a medieval city. Kano's population is in the millions and they are still living like monkeys.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYV7iSScNA8

Anyway this your thread
Might shaa cos trouble
Cos somepipo
Who likes to wail and yet call others wailers.
Will want to exhibit there insecured mindset in turning here into a tribal war front

Just watch as the come

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Nigercity:
Anyway this your thread
Might shaa cos trouble
Cos somepipo
Who likes to wail and yet call others wailers.
Will want to exhibit there insecured mindset in turning here into a tribal war front

Just watch as the come

The will start posting pictures of edited roads with poorly and unplanned settlement or drone shot of some places excluding causal residential areas

I have many foreign friends. They say the situation in Nigerian cities is not normal. It is not normal for cities of 1 - 5 million people to be looking like largescale villages. It's extremely bad for the environment and slows down modernization. Chinese researchers discovered housing density boosts productivity and GDP growth by magnitudes. It also makes it easier for the government to deliver public services like electricity, etc.

Nigercity:
..... Op in the 70's

Nigeria in the 1800s..



i read a 1939 American crime novel recently... omo the settings in that novel , Nigeria never even smell am.

Onitsha before the war.

IgbereTV did a great job at capturing the full beauty of Onitsha with Helicopter. I will create a thread soon. They also curated over 10 images of Onitsha before the war.

https://igberetvnews.com/404621/before-after-photos-of-onitsha-before-the-civil-war-and-now/#forward

IGBO AMAKA

Aconomist:
Onitsha is the only city (outside major cities like Abuja and Lagos) that has a semblance of a human-occupied city in Nigeria. Other cities in Nigeria tend to sprawl out in low density animalistic slums, despite the massive demand for housing and high land prices. An Indian friend remarked to me that Nigeria is the only country where people will spend $100,000 to buy a plot of land in the city center and erect a one-story bungalow.

In his country, they build taller multi-story buildings to house as many people as possible on expensive land. Onitsha is the only city in sub Saharan Africa that looks similar to countries like India, China and Indonesia in the 70s before they modernized. The below image doesn't even look like Africa. It looks like China, Vietnam or Philippines in the 70s

you heard thus from an Indian?

IamAtikulate:
Onitsha before the war.

IgbereTV did a great job at capturing the full beauty of Onitsha with Helicopter. I will create a thread soon. They also curated over 10 images of Onitsha before the war.

https://igberetvnews.com/404621/before-after-photos-of-onitsha-before-the-civil-war-and-now/#forward

IGBO AMAKA

Onitsha's government needs to do more, though. The public infrastructure is lacking.

If the government of Anambra would put decent roads and a beautification program (force landlords to paint their buildings, etc) in Onitsha it would be a massive tourist attraction for the whole world. Despite its shortcomings, no one would believe black Africans could build a high density city like this without foreign help. It is a complete anomaly from the usual bungalows and slum cities of West Africa

Aconomist:
If the government of Anambra would put decent roads and a beautification program (force landlords to paint their buildings, etc) in Onitsha it would be a massive tourist attraction for the whole world. Despite its shortcomings, no one would believe black Africans could build a high density city like this without foreign help. It is a complete anomaly from the usual bungalows and slum cities of West Africa

Solution is coming to start from where Obiano will stop watch out for(ife di iche) the cities will welcome new Cargo airport and commercial airport in few months time.

MISTER MAN GROW UP..

They say the government is not allowing Onitsha residents to build higher than 5 stories now. This needs to change. Let the builders build -- simply regulate them to make sure they are doing a good job. Imagine if Dubai, New York and Chicago limited themselves to only 5 stories? Nigerians must have confidence if we want to modernize.

Aconomist:
If the government of Anambra would put decent roads and a beautification program (force landlords to paint their buildings, etc) in Onitsha it would be a massive tourist attraction for the whole world. Despite its shortcomings, no one would believe black Africans could build a high density city like this without foreign help. It is a complete anomaly from the usual bungalows and slum cities of West Africa

Exactly!! And fix inner street roads too

Anambra state is highly underrated. Apart from Onitsha, neighboring cities like Obosi, Nkpor and others are a big city on its own. Anambra is the most cosmopolitan state in Nigeria. Proudly Omambara

These people with inferiority complex sha. Always do notice me.


One of them posted same thing two days ago

Another one yesterday

And this now.


Na wa

post=98536527:

Solution is coming to start from were Obiano will stop watch out for(ife di iche) the cities will welcome new Cargo airport and commercial airport in few months time.

Shut up and stop promoting mediocrity. Anambrarians have rejected Obiano and his cohorts. Godwin Maduka we know

KoshCAD:
These people with inferiority complex sha. Always do notice me.


One of them posted same thing two days ago

Another one yesterday

And this now.


Na wa

I'm not Igbo, though. I'm an objective third party.

Fahdiga:
Shut up and stop promoting mediocrity. Anambrarians have rejected Obiano and his cohorts. Godwin Maduka we know

No be fight bro, but I can assure you that Maduka will not get PDP ticket, your next governor is CC Soludo go and mark it on the wall