Nnewi is the second largest city in Anambra State in southeastern Nigeria. Nnewi as a metropolitan city encompasses 4 local government areas, Nnewi North, Nnewi South, Ekwusigo and Ihiala Local Government; Nnewi North is commonly referred to as Nnewi central, and comprises four autonomous quarters: Otolo, Uruagu, Umudim, and Nnewi-ichi. Nnewi North also includes Ichi, an autonomous neighbouring town. The first indigenous car manufacturing plant in Nigeria is located in the city, while the first wholly made-in-Nigeria motorcycle, the 'NASENI M1' was manufactured in Nnewi.
As of 2006, Nnewi has an estimated population of 391,227 according to the Nigerian census. The city spans over 1,076.9 square miles (2,789 km2) in Anambra State. Nnewi Metropolitan Area and its satellite towns is home to nearly 2.5 million residents As of 2005. Dimensionally, Nnewi has an edge over all other units, being recognized by the 1953 census figures as the largest inland town of all others in the Eastern states of Nigeria.
Economy
Agbo Edo, a forest land which belonged to Edo Nnewi deity, was cleared to make way for a new market called Nkwo Nnewi market. The development of this market propelled the fast development of the local economy.
As a fast developing city and a major industrial and commercial hub in Africa, Nnewi experiences voluminous financial activities, therefore hosts major banks, and other financial institutions. Industries are dotted around the city and adjoining towns. Palm oil, cosmetics, motor, and motorcycle spare parts, books, and stationeries, textiles, electric cables, and so on are produced in commercial quantity in the area. Its main trading centers include Nkwo Nnewi market (the largest spare parts market in west Africa) and Nwafor market, Eke Amaobi market, Eke Ochie, Eke Ichi Market, Orie otube Market, etc
Industries
Nnewi is referred to as the Japan of Africa, it is home to many major indigenous manufacturing industries including Ibeto Group of Companies, Cutix and ADswitch, Uru Industries Ltd, Omata Holdings Ltd, Cento Group of Companies, Coscharis of Companies Group, Innoson Group of Companies, Ebunso Nig. Ltd, John White Industries, Ejiamatu Group of Companies, Chicason Group, Louis Carter Group,[b]Kotec Industry etc[/b]. The great majority of industrialists in the cluster of spare parts factories in Nnewi are also traders, and most of these traders are producing one or more of the products they specialize in marketing as traders (usually motor vehicle parts), and most began by distributing their products through their preexisting distribution networks. Nnewi is part of eastern Nigeria's industrial axis. The town has through culturally grounded institutions that act as sophisticated networks expanded to include an international dimension through trading relations with exporters from Asia. Over the last decade, the town of Nnewi has experienced relatively rapid industrialization. Since 1970, Nnewi residents have controlled approximately 80 to 90 percent of the motor-parts trade in Nigeria. Nkwo Nnewi Market is the major import and wholesale point for motor spare parts in Nigeria. The industrialists of Nnewi are adapting foreign technology to local needs, providing employment to thousands, and making available goods and services which are relevant actual needs of the Nigerian citizens. The first indigenous car manufacturing plant is located in the city, while the first wholly Made-in-Nigeria motorcycle was manufactured in Nnewi by the National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI).
Auto parts
Nnewi is known for the vibrant auto industry in the city, t[b]he first Igbo man to own and drive a car was HRH Igwe. Orizu I (Eze Ugbo Onya Mba) in 1912. By 1940, Nnewi residents were at the center of an international trading networkthat dominated the supply of motor spare parts in Nigeria.[/b] The town subsequently became a center for commerce and industry, and has one of the largest automotive parts markets in Africa. Nnewi Township is an authentic "manufacturing miracle." Small and medium-sized industries have set up in the town and are producing not only for the Nigeria markets but – albeit still to a limited extent – for markets abroad.
Industrialization of the town began around 1970 when Nnewi motor parts traders began marketing their own brand name products instead of the reproductions of "original" parts. There are a several auto and motorcycle spare parts dealers in Nnewi; the Nnewi Motorcycle spare parts market is well known throughout West Africa and has earned the city the nickname, Japan of Africa.
Wikipedia

NASENI Launches First wholly Made-In-Nigeria Motocycle
EXECUTIVE VICE CHAIRMAN Calls on Federal Government To Ban Importation Of Motorcycles to Nigeria As He Calls on Private Sector to mass Produce ‘NASENI M1’ Motorcycles.

As a proof of potential capacities of the National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI) to provide necessary engineering and technology infrastructure for industrial development of Nigeria, the Executive Vice Chairman of the Agency, Dr.Mohammed Sani Haruna yesterday launched first ever wholly made-in-Nigeria motor cycle called ‘NASENI M1”. The motorcycle was test-run working perfectly. The 80C engine motorcycle was conceived, designed and manufactured, using local materials by Nigerian engineers at the National Engineering Design Development Institute (NEDDI)-one of the nine (9) research and development (R&) Institutes supervised by NASENI.

The Executive Vice Chairman of NASENI while riding on ‘NASENI M1’ himself within the factory complex of NEDDI in Nnewi, Anambra State disclosed that the product was basically one of the targets of the Agency in response to President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan’s vision 20:20:20 economic transformation Agenda. The Federal Government which the Agency is part of has promised Nigerians a better socio-economic deal by year 2020 even as Mr. President had also committed the government to elevate the economic status of Nigeria to be among 20 fastest growing economies in the world by year 2020.

While launching the motorcycle, Dr. Haruna remarked that by NASENI’s reckoning, a country could only be self reliant and economically developed only when her citizens begin to exercise and assert their ingenuities in productive capacities or real time manufacturing toward technology advancement of the country. He said as a nation, Nigerians must demonstrate real capacities for engineering technology development, and production of manufactured goods and services. He said that is why NASENI had taken this bold step to demonstrate to Nigerians that Mr. President’s dream is both realizable and is even being realized.

Dr. Haruna called on the Federal Government to put a ban on the importation of motorcycles into the Nigerian market as he declared bravely that Nigeria has perfected the technology and manufacturing capacity to produce motorcycles in mass in Nnewi, South-East Nigeria.

About 20 million Nigerians today rely on motorcycle as means of transportation and many unemployed youths and men support their families or earn a living from running motorcycle as a commercial venture. He said, “Imagine the large number of jobs that will be created if only Nigeria could close her boarders against importation of motorcycles and allow Nigeria entrepreneurs to invest in the manufacturing of the parts including production of the motorcycle locally.

His words: “Nigeria, no doubt, has all the materials needed to produce motorcycle in Nigeria, 100 percent. NASENI has both the raw materials survey, their locations, equipment and the critical human capacity, design, feasibility studies and the business plan for running a successful plant for producing motorcycle; what we are waiting for now is for Nigerian entrepreneurs to come forward to take advantage of this profitable investment in manufacturing of the motorcycles”

The law establishing NASENI and its Institutes does not allow it to embark on full scale manufacturing of products and or become full-scale player in the market but for every technologies and engineering products developed within the Agency system must be ceded to the private sector for commercial purpose or mass production. Its mission includes hitherto establishing and nurturing appropriate dynamic science and engineering infrastructure base for achieving home initiated and home sustained industrialization through the development of relevant processes, capital goods and equipment necessary for job creation, national economic well-being and progress.
http://www.naseni.org/news-blog/2-latest-news/29-naseni-launches-first-wholly-made-in-nigeria-motocycle.html

Nnewi my home
Rocking Otolo Nnewi

Home of Technology.
IVM

Some of the products from Nnewi

Nnewi products
CUTIX PLC best cable

Cutix plc Nnewi

Its real out hia niggaa!! The hustle is constant.

Indigenous industries

The only time i read/hear about newi is when i log on to Nairaland. What is newi?

The ingenuity of the igbo man (and yes i mean the igboman ) is unparalleled.


If this country wants to industrialize,it MUST look to the east.QED

its a pity that even with the rising sun,a praying Muslim and a compass,our leaders dont Know where "east" is.

Tummy Tummy Nnewi

Mods,please put this on the frontpage.Let people Know whats going on in the east.

@OP.....there is no reason why the south east cannot feed itself.
onitsha,aba and nnewi alone can grow the SE.
all the east needs is an enabling environment.
Our leaders (including our leaders in the east)have failed us...otherwise what stops the leaders of all the eastern States from coming together and building Power plants solely for the markets at aba and onitsha and the industrial district at nnewi?
What stops them from coming together and giving the necessary support to governor udom to actualize the ibaka Port.A port in akwaibom would serve the east well.
With an international airport and a seaport in the east the FG can go f***ck themselves.(pardon my expression)

Anambra1st son thanks for these pictures but your third image looks like a rendering i.e it doesnt look real

Detroit is Americas Nnewi.

Simply wonderful. This country truly has great potentials.

Transportation
Nnewi is well known as the home of several transport and logistics businesses since the end of the second world war. Philip Odumegwu Ojukwu was one of Nigeria's first transporters and since then, many more transporters have emerged from Nnewi. Some of the Nnewi owned transport firms in Nigeria are:

Chi Di Ebere Transport Ltd
Ekene Dili Chukwu Nig. Ltd.
Ijeoma Motors Nig. Ltd.
Ekeson Motors Ltd
Izuchukwu Nig. Ltd.
Nsoedo Transport Ltd
Orizu Transport Limited
Bluebase Transport Solutions
Izu Okaka Anaedo Ltd

phantom:
Mods,please put this on the frontpage.Let people Know whats going on in the east.

@OP.....there is no reason why the south east cannot feed itself.
onitsha,aba and nnewi alone can grow the SE.
all the east needs is an enabling environment.
Our leaders (including our leaders in the east)have failed us...otherwise what stops the leaders of all the eastern States from coming together and building Power plants solely for the markets at aba and onitsha and the industrial district at nnewi?
What stops them from coming together and giving the necessary support to governor udom to actualize the ibaka Port.A port in akwaibom would serve the east well.
With an international airport and a seaport in the east the FG can go f***ck themselves.(pardon my expression)

One single policy can still destroy all these. My brother we still need to have people in government. It will only make us greater.

phantom:
Anambra1st son thanks for these pictures but your third image looks like a rendering i.e it doesnt look real

Can you highlight the picture?

And some dimwits would be busy saying we should remove our eyes from ND oil when we've cities like Aba, Nnewi & Onicha
Just imagine these industries under a free and encouraging climate that an imperial Biafran govt would provide.. with incentives that encourage the spreading of these industries to other Igbo/Biafran cities.
Uturu thanks to uche Oga is rising too like the sun..and with our seaport at Opobo,our economy would be export driven.
Ekele gara Chukwu Okike Abiama

Nnewi Shopping mall under construction

Igbo amaka... Anambra adigo mma... Ogbaru di Uso.

Nnewi is the ancestral home of prominent Nigerians

[b]Igwe Orizu I (Eze Ugbonyamba) ; 15th Igwe Nnewi and the first Igbo person to own and drive a car
Sir Louis Odumegwu Ojukwu, OBE ; First Nigerian multimillionaire and father of General Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu
General Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu (Ikemba Nnewi) ; First University graduate in the Nigerian Army, former military Governor of defunct Eastern Nigeria and first President of defunct Republic of Biafra
Dr. Edward Ikem Okeke ; Former Deputy President of the PRP Political Party
Dr. Chu Okongwu ; Former Minister of Finance, Federal Republic of Nigeria
Prof. A.B.C Nwosu; Former Anambra State Commissioner of Health & Minister of Health, Federal Republic of Nigeria
HRH Prince Nwafor Orizu ; Aristocrat, Educationist, 2nd Senate President of Nigeria (16, 1960 to January 15, 1966) and Acting President of Nigeria (1965–1966)
M.C.K Ajuluchukwu, Nigerian Journalist ; Nationalist, Anti-colonialist and first republic law-maker, uncle of Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu
Dr. Dozie Ikedife (Ikenga Nnewi) ; former President-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo
Dr. (Chief) Edwin Leonard Anazor (Ononenyi); St. Anthony's Hospital Otolo Nnewi
Joseph N.C. Egemonye (Abianaomume Nnewi) ; Businessman, Journalist and Writer, founder of The Nigeria Monitor Newspaper, Co-founder of The Winston-Salem Chronicle Newspaper.[14]
Felix Ezejiofor Okonkwo (Okonkwo-Kano);[15] Prominent Igbo leader in Northern Nigeria (1960s).
Cletus Ibeto, CON ; Industrialist and Philanthropist
Senator Onyeabo Obi (Oso-Oji Nnewi) ; Second Republic Senator
Senator Ikechukwu Obiorah ; Nigerian Politician
Gabriel Chukwuma ; Businessman and Founder of Beverly Hills Resort & Hotel, Nnewi and Gabros International F.C., Nnewi
Late Chief. Augustine Ejikeme Ilodibe (Onwa na-etili Ora Nnewi) ; Philanthropist and Founder of Ekenedilichukwu Motors Nigeria Limited
Late Dr (Chief) David Bennet Anagwu Ofomata (Atuma Nnewi); Former Chairman, Old Nnewi LGA and First Medical Director of the Nigerian Railway Corporation
Mr. Innocent Chukwuma, OON ; Businessman & Founder of Innoson Group
L. Amazu (Eze Afojulu Nnewi) ; Founder of Chi di Ebele Transport Limited and Amazu Oil
Chief C.C. Obienugh JP (Okputolokpu Nnewi) ; founder African Pioneer Company
Senator Z.C. Obi (Eze-Onunekwulu-Igbo Na Okemili Nnewi) ; First indigenous east Niger produce Manager of UAC[disambiguation needed], President of the Igbo State Union & appointed Senator in the First Republic.[16]
Criminologist K.C. Okafor-Igwe ; Philosopher & Poet
Late Chief. Onuzulike Daniel Okonkwo (Ozuome-Nnewi) ; Diplomat, Educator and Writer.[15][17]
Francis Christian Nnodumene Agbasi (Omenka Nnewi) ; Engineer and Founding Partner, Frank Agbasi & Partners.[18]
Samuel Chukwurah ; Industrialist and Founder of the now defunct Chukwurah agricultural industry
Late Issiah Nwafor (Udumotari) ; Businessman & Philanthropist
Benson Egemonye ; Nigerian professional Basketball Player.[19]
Evangelist. Cosmas Maduka ; Founder of Coscharis Group
Dame Virginia Etiaba ; First Nigerian Female Governor. Former Governor & Deputy Governor of Anambra state.
Mr. Louis Onwugbenu (Louis Carter) ; Industrialist & Philanthropist
HRH Late Prince. Sunny Obi (Igiligi Nnewi) ; Aristocrat, Businessman & Philanthropist
Engr. Obiajulu Uzodike ; Industrialist and founder of Cutix Nigeria Plc.
Chika Okafor ; Industrialist and founder of Chikason Group
Ifeanyi Uba ; Philanthropist and founder of Capital oil and Gas Ind. Ltd.
Engr. Ebele Okeke ; Head of the Civil Services of the Federal Republic of Nigeria from July 2007 to 2008
Humphrey Obimma ; Business tycoon and founder of El-nac International Ltd. Also a Philanthropist
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Can you highlight the picture?

i mean the tumy-tumy pictures

phantom:
i mean the tumy-tumy pictures

That's Tummy Tummy food Nnewi, You can view their web page
http://tummy-tummyfoods.com/en/

Just like America,while the 2nd world war was going on,they were busy developing their economic capacity and the world woke up to an economic super power......as Nigerians are busy struggling for political power,some day,they will wake up to the realization that beyond Aso-Rock,there is a place where the sun rises. The history of great nations of the world,is a story of group of people with indefatigable and undying spirit,beyond the pain,the see the glory!
Chukwu gozie ndigbo!

O boy!!! Them people from the other side ain't gonna like this news one bit..

Mods, take this to front page, we need to support our own

okpurukata:
Simply wonderful. This country truly has great potentials.

Which country?

Nice one

Lalasticlala, do justice to this.