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...





At the end of the day, this is your daily reality...

Aj4ril:



U that know the difference btw bridge and flyover should enlighting us

Oga, arrogance is bad and you won't learn much when you are arrogant but for posterity sake, I'd tell you the difference... Flyovers are roads that go over another while bridge "in road terms" refers to a road that goes over a barrier, say a river or valley.

Oma307:
what would have happened?

spiritual slapping u can ask rochas he can explain v.well.

Mtcheew! After inspecting this one now, he will return back and continue his poor governance. Let's be honest, most Nigerian leaders are not that focused on development especially when it has no personal or political undertones. Our way of thinking is what's bedeviling us.

AutoReportNG:
Can we have this type of bridge in Nigeria?

See more here..

https://www.autoreportng.com/2018/07/obiano-inspects-plastic-bridge-in-vienna.html

No.. Big NO... Una don maintain d concrete bridge wey una get finish?

bestviewer:
Obiano is a man ahead of his time. He is a practical technocrat who knows how to get things done and done very well.

Akuko n'egwu Mike Ejeagha. Anyways you are doing your job well, jisie ike nna. Oburo fault gi na igasiri skoolu ma oru adighi. Ha nye gi some 'change' nara rie, then bia internet postuo ihe soro gi and defend him. Cheers

deomelo:







^^^^^^^^ that's what the UN said about your dirty and stinking village...





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Three Southwestern states top dirtiest States in Nigeria

This is Anambra

AutoReportNG:
Can we have this type of bridge in Nigeria?

See more here..

https://www.autoreportng.com/2018/07/obiano-inspects-plastic-bridge-in-vienna.html

For now I think we need only steel cos the concrete bridge no even sure again not to talk of plastic.

ozoebuka1:
which one you don build? To show how useless you are, you don't even know the difference between a bridge and a flyover and who told you obiano did that flyover?

Brother... I agree with every other thing you've said but I want you to know that a flyover is a bridge... If you got any question, ask amadioha.

gidgiddy:
Obiano is lucky that IPOB Austria didn't know he is in town

Stop this; he apologized

Why Umeh nsi just they follow this man uppandan

deomelo:





From building the lousiest bridge in the history of mankind to blonde and bubble-head plastic bridge idea....

Is this going to be the 2nd Niger bridge or 3rd, 4th or 5th Niger bridge?


This man is useless no be small

Not again

awon ode
are they listening with their stomach

Who else notice the midget? . Seems he is the engineer..Midgets with extra brain.Wey our midgets o.

He will come back and still build a substandard project.
African leaders are cursed.

ozoebuka1:
This is how visionary leaders act they move out and watch inventions in order to innovate. Nice one Willie... Willie is working!!!

did u c d leaders of Austria going from country to country inspecting inventions? This is era of d internet. Every info about inventions are on d internet. D governor seems to b doing more inspections outside d country than in his state

Ojiofor:
He will come back and still build a substandard project.
African leaders are cursed.

build what? D guy went 4 sight seeing. That's all he will use his second term for