Onitsha (Igbo: Ọ̀nị̀chà Mmílí[4] or just Ọ̀nị̀chà)[5] is a city, a commercial, Industrial,educational, and religious centre and river port on the eastern bank of the Niger river in Anambra State, southeastern Nigeria.

Onitsha by 2001 had an estimated population of 511,000 with a metropolitan population of 1,003,000.[2]

The majority of people in Onitsha are Igbo and speak the Igbo language however significant communities from Northern and Western Nigeria live in the city. The Onitsha people like to be referred to as Ndi Onicha.
As a city lying strategically at the bridge between Eastern Nigeria and Western Nigeria, and between the densely settled Igbo hinterland and the oil-rich creeks of the Niger Delta, Onitsha is strategically positioned as a regional hub for trade and logistics in Eastern Nigeria.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onitsha

Beautiful View

River Niger and Onitsha port

Which port of if may ask? You people are just trying to justify the imposibility! !!

sammyj:
Which port of if may ask? You people are just trying to justify the imposibility! !!

What do you mean by the impossibility?

sammyj:
Which port of if may ask? You people are just trying to justify the imposibility! !!

Dem Don come

Gate way to east

sammyj:
Which port of if may ask? You people are just trying to justify the imposibility! !!

Bro, I've been to Tincan Port. I've sailed the waters and to be honest Onitsha if finally given a chance will do just fine. If you're a proactive thinker then you'd know that impossibility gives rise to a new challenge. IT'S VERY POSSIBLE.

Ok oooooo

pacino26:


Bro, I've been to Tincan Port. I've sailed the waters and to be honest Onitsha if finally given a chance will do just fine. If you're a proactive thinker then you'd know that impossibility gives rise to a new challenge. IT'S VERY POSSIBLE.

Sentiment aside, why don't FG do something about this Onitsha seaport? It could go a long way to generate employment, increase our revenue base and open doors for foreign investment which all in integration boost our GDP. Must we play politics with everything?

Aside that one Nairalander challenged guys

rheether:
If u get more a hundred likes, I will go out on a date with you. (Distance isn't a barrier)

i take the challenge to win her E-love.

Onitsha is a satellite city of Benin....and not ibo....enough of land grabbing...

Story story story! !!!

chiefobdk:



Dem Don come

NobleAky:
Sentiment aside, why don't FG do something about this Onitsha seaport? It could go a long way to generate boost our GDP.

What about the State Government? Is it not possible or a permit from the federal government is first granted?

Landlock na landlock! !!

Reyginus:
What do you mean by the impossibility?

Upper Iweka in 2012

sammyj:
Landlocked na landlocked! !!

Landlocked? You have an Idea where the waters lead to? Or what do you mean by Landlocked as regards the river?

.... ok oooooo we shall see when the time comes! !!!

Reyginus:
Landlocked? You have an Idea where the waters lead to? Or what do you mean by Landlocked as regards the river?

sammyj:
.... ok oooooo we shall see when the times comes! !!!

See what? It seems you don't want it to even be possible in the first place. My question is simply what you mean by landlocked. Tell me.

sammyj:
Which port of if may ask? You people are just trying to justify the imposibility! !!

Why is it impossible
Nothing is impossible.
Check out the river ports located along the Amazon, Yangtze, Rhine, Seine rivers. Nigerian river port shouldn't be different if not that we are bedevilled by ethnocentric sentiments.

I did not say anything like that please don't misquote me!!!

Reyginus:
See what? It seems you don't want it to even be possible in the first place. My question is simply what you mean by landlocked. Tell me.

Recent pix of Upper iweka

sammyj:
I did not say anything like that please don't misquote me!!!

You don't really have to say it. The things we don't say often times appear to be our true position.

Reyginus:
What about the State Government? Is it not possible or a permit from the federal government is first granted?

you answered yourself...that port is an FG property and before the State government can do something on it, it must obtain permit from the FG...which seems somehow impossible because of tribalistic politics

4 ur mind dis one na see?go 2 Ilaje ondo state den compare..dis's 4 Keno,flyin boat n cruz ship..

Onitsha biggest river port city

Industrial section of Onitsha

NobleAky:
you answered yourself...that port is an FG property and before the State government can do something on it, it must obtain permit from the FG...which seems somehow impossible because of tribalistic politics

Okay. Do you know if it has been tried before?

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Industrial section of Onitsha

Upper Iweka Interchange 2016

AnamCity:



Upper Iweka Interchange 2016

Thanks

Reyginus:
Okay. Do you know if it has been tried before?

to even clean the waterways is a problem talk more of developing it. To renovate the overhead bridge that passed across it has been a problem for long.

More from Onitsha

StunningCEO:
Onitsha is a satellite city of Benin....and not ibo....enough of land grabbing...

If e pain you say onitsha dey igboland,break your phone!

The delta and rivers state you thieves carved out of old eastern region never abi! Identity grabbers!