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PressMyButton:
You forget that the hide & skin you use in making those Aba shoes is a supply from the North?, and 98% of agricultural goods you resell in those markets comes from the North. If the trucks coming from Kano alone shut you out, you're in trouble.

Those foot wear only exist in your region
Watch and see Kano traders buy shoes in Anambra market


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_HAMyArxoc?si=UqJj4_zRfZ2DFAWv

PressMyButton:
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Fact from the authority, not from a local boy that know nothing about his locality

PressMyButton:
This is 2024 already, you guys should stop all this dirty beer parlor gossips. Do SE has any commercial or trade volume close to Kano or PH?, does Kano have a seaport?.. By first week of January, y'all would flee SE back to where you sweat it out, while SE becomes deserted. I haven't seen any nation or tribe succeed this way.

You are swimming in ignorance you forgot that Onitsha including Aba feed many markets in north, Port Harcourt buy their goods from Onitsha and Aba, you are only harming yourself

PressMyButton:
This is a dustbin article. Onitsha is no where close to Kano ar a commercial center much less being the commercial nerve center of Nigeria. Onitsha i''p' just a small town like Oshodi, the commercial activities in both pldces are almost alike. From the article, it affirms that Onitsha is only a distribution center, not a production center, Onitsha is just a place for buying and selling commodity goods just like an average market. Read the screenshot you posted very well.

Anambra economy is #3.1 trillion, Kano is #2.9 trillion

accordadoga21:
Hehehe

These people and Inferiority complex

The era of Lagos/Ibadan propaganda is over

PressMyButton:
This is a dustbin article. Onitsha is no where close to Kano ar a commercial center much less being the commercial nerve center of Nigeria. Onitsha i''p' just a small town like Oshodi, the commercial activities in both pldces are almost alike. From the article, it affirms that Onitsha is only a distribution center, not a production center, Onitsha is just a place for buying and selling commodity goods just like an average market. Read the screenshot you posted very well.

Anu with ewedu brain, UN report about Onitsha is now article nothing jealous and bitterness no do you guys, see how empty you are that Oshodi is bigger than Onitsha you are seriously swimming in ignorance, you forgot that Anambra is bigger than Lagos, Oshodi is just like Upper Iweka in Onitsha, Anambra is third largest economy after Lagos, FCT base on non oil economy, Anambra commercial activities is far bigger than Kano both Industrial sector, Kano that ShopRite is closing up

PressMyButton:
This is a dustbin article. Onitsha is no where close to Kano as a commercial center much less being the commercial center of Nigeria. Onitsha is just a small town like Oshodi, the commercial activities in both places are almost alike.

You be dumbo, common sense is far from you 🤣, you forgot that Anambra is bigger than Lagos Anambra is third largest economy in Nigeria based on non oil economy Kano is below Anambra state, Anambra host 48 standard markets

orohbirodeysmel:
Na all man get, just like Abuja today...so it is a fucking no man's land

Last month Oba of Benin come talk say na Benin people get am, Omo any body can claim Lagos na no man's land. The word "Lagos" itself na Portuguese word

Fully aware

Slytiger:
Funny thread.

WHO report and Onitsha residents report. I hope you believe those ones too just as you believe the UN report.

This is city built by Yorubas

Ibadan according to UN habitat it's 70% covered by Slums

orohbirodeysmel:
If all the whole tribes in Lagos pull out..Niamey, Niger republic will be paradise when compared to Lagos

Lagos was former colony, and federal capital largely developed by all tribes and foreigners

Slytiger:
Funny thread.

WHO report and Onitsha residents report. I hope you believe those ones too just as you believe the UN report.

Bitter mind this is Lagos

PressMyButton ignorant mind travel and see not to seat in your mud enclave and posting what you don't know about

Despite being applauded for taking Anambra to the 7th position in Nigeria in terms of the ease of doing business according to the 2023 Nigeria Subnational Ease of Doing Business Report and the achievements in road construction, Governor Chukwuma Soludo is not resting on his oars. With the Anambra Industrial City Project, Governor Soludo is on the verge of transforming the state into a major manufacturing and logistics hub in Nigeria.
In the last 20 months, the Governor Soludo-led administration has focused on foundational issues such as developing frameworks and urban renewal master plans, reworking the state’s security architecture, getting investors’ buy-in on projects, enhancing social welfare programmes and building basic infrastructure.
Having concluded these required foundational issues, all is now set to unleash the economic potentials of Anambra State with the Anambra Industrial City Project.
Also known as Ikenga Industrial City, the Anambra Industrial City is a proposed mixed-use development facility which features an industrial zone, commercial and retail spaces, research and development facilities, residential areas and recreation centers. The city will sit on a 4000-hectare of land. The planned city will increase Anambra’s potentials for exporting finished and semi-finished products to the rest of the world. The Anambra Industrial City shall have a special economic zone (SEZ) status.
A special economic zone (SEZ) is a broad term which covers a wide range of zones, such as free-trade zones, export-processing zones, industrial parks, economic and technology-development zones, high-tech zones, science and technology parks, free ports, enterprise zones, and others.

Fundamentally, a SEZ is an area in which the business and trade laws are different from the rest of the country. SEZ promotes industrialization, encourages foreign investment and promotes international trade.
A couple of free zones in Lagos stand out. These are: Lagos Free Zone (LFZ); Snake Island Integrated Free Zone (SIIFZ); Lekki Free Trade Zone (LFTZ); LADOL; Newsrest ASL Services & Logistics; Dangote Industries; and Alaro City Development Free Zone Badagary Creek Integrated Plant.

In order to reap the benefits of SEZ, Anambra State Government, last October, formally submitted an Expression-of-Interest (EOI) and made payment to Nigeria Export Processing Zones Authority (NEPZA) for a special economic zone license. With this application, Anambra State is expected to join states such as Lagos which has been able to attract over $22 billion investment in its free zones – i.e., special economic zones.
The development of Anambra Industrial City is in top gear. A few days ago, Anambra State Government welcomed a delegation from ARISE Integrated Industrial Platforms (ARISE IIP). The state government had signed an agreement with ARISE IIP at the 2023 Intra-Africa Trade Fair (IATF) in Egypt in November for the development of Anambra Mixed-Use Industrial City.

ARISE IIP finances, conceives and operates industrial ecosystems across Africa. ARISE IIP has footprints in Gabon with the Gabon Special Economic Zone (GSEZ), in Benin with the Glo-Djigbé Industrial Zone (GDIZ) and in Togo with the Adétikopé Industrial Platform (PIA). The company is currently developing industrial zones in Côte d’Ivoire and Chad. These zones will mainly be dedicated to the processing of local agricultural products in Côte d’Ivoire and Chad.

A few weeks ago, a delegation from Anambra was in Togo and Benin Republic to understudy some of ARISE IIP’s signature projects. The plan is to replicate similar structures in Anambra.

At the moment, a delegation from Artelia Consulting Engineers Limited (formerly Mahindra Consulting Engineers) is in Anambra State for a feasibility study geared towards the development of a master plan for the proposed Mixed-Used Industrial City. The conceptual and design works for this industrial city are taking shape.
To power the Anambra Industrial City, you need gas and, of course, renewable energy. Gas is needed to power industrialization in Anambra State. To this end, the state government is already working out modalities with investors and the NNPC on how to expand natural gas infrastructure in the state.

Anambra is rich in gas. Out of the thirteen acreages in the Anambra Basin, nine are located within Anambra State. Unfortunately, only two of these acreages are currently being exploited.
To improve gas utilization in Anambra State, the state’s ministry of petroleum and Anambra State Investment Promotion and Protection Agency (ANSIPPA) are working hard through the use of special purpose vehicles to increase investment in the solid mineral and gas space in Anambra.
With Afreximbank providing financial advisory services for the development of an operational and governance framework for the $250 million Anambra Diaspora Fund, it is envisaged that the people of Anambra living all over the world can share in this prosperity.
It is a new dawn in Anambra!
https://www.thecable.ng/soludo-is-transforming-anambra-to-a-manufacturing-and-logistics-hub/amp
Nlpfmod

Anambra development agreement deal with Afreximbank

Typing:
Bridge wey we go blow off, when the North finally give Igbo people Biafra

You go still carry this stupidity enter New year, you're enjoying stupidity 😂

Bobloco:
Onitsha, a built by the people


No single individual can ever claim to have built that city. The people built it

Igbos 100% built Onitsha

walefresh3:
Enugu

Street and billionaires villages...

Slums in Yoruba no get part 2, all the cities are covered by Slums, 70% of Ibadan is covered by Slums same with others in Southwest

Watch this Highbrow areas of Onitsha, people that own these mansions all resides in Onitsha doing their business not everybody is in Lagos

This is Highbrow areas of Onitsha


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmQUxS-cOFM?si=EUwBJaIhDuaLvoqn

They are so bitter and jealous the don't want to believe that Igbos has fully recovered, fact is that we have moved beyond Onitsha, Anambra is now gradually becoming a mega city state that's the current Update now, your bitterness and jealous can't stop it even UN habitat predicated it, now becoming a reality even with all the marginalization it's already happening you can't just stop it.

pharmagba:
There is potential and gift in every man and every tribe.
No need to hate let's come together in strength.

See the thread the dumbo opened, year in year out these guys refused to learn, they so much believe Igbos are stagnant waste so much time hating them, while those are hating are fast progressing
See the thread
https://www.nairaland.com/7952619/igbos-ability-build-commercial-center

Onitsha is a commercial nerve center in Nigeria and one of the industrial hub according to UN habitat
I read a report of one ignorant mind from west asking can Igbos build commercial or Cosmopolitan City? Yes Igbos has 100% built a commercial nerve center and cosmopolitan city for themselves without external tribe within short period, Onitsha is commercial nerve center in Nigeria, Onitsha has expanded to many towns and local governments that's Many ignorant minds from west doesn't know, the believe that urbanization end only in Onitsha town they see on Google not knowing that the city has expanded to many towns and local governments, most of the towns are even bigger than main Onitsha town, I have been trying to educate their ignorant minds, see UN habitat report about Onitsha, one of the ignorant minds that opened thread even wrote that no commercial nerve center in Southeast, I don't know what this guys smoke or they enjoying being dumbo

Carefully read UN habitat report on Onitsha

Onitsha, the gateway to eastern Nigeria and economic nerve centre of Nigeria , is located on latitude 6.1°N and longitude 6.8°E in the Anambra North Senatorial Zone of Anambra State. It occupies the eastern bank of the Niger River, covering some 50 square kilometres. Onitsha is strategically located and accessed through the east–west national main road from Lagos through Benin, which links the eastern north–south route via the Niger Bridge at Onitsha. The main concentration of population and industrial activity and the areas showing the greatest potential for growth are situated along this transportation axis. The recent process of urban expansion largely reflects the communication network. Onitsha’s location, which combines both road and waterway access points, makes it one of the four main potential industrial and commercial growth areas in Nigeria.
The city is split into two local government areas, Onitsha South and Onitsha North. Both areas are bound by Ogbaru local government to the south, Idemili North and Oyi to the east, and Anambra East to the north
surrounding area, including the neighbouring towns of Obosi, Nkpor, Oba, Ogidi, Nkwelle-Ezunaka, and Umunya, which existed before the founding of Onitsha.
Onitsha expanded inland, which led to the development of new residential areas along major arterial roads including Awka Road, Oguta Road, New Market Road, Old Market Road, Iweka Road, Modebe Avenue, Venn
Road, Court Road, Park Road, and Old and New Cemetery Roads. The planned new residential layouts also include the GRA, American Quarters, Fegge, Woliwo, Odoakpu, and Omagba; the indigenes mostly
reside in Inland Town (the historical and traditional
section of Onitsha).
The central business district of Onitsha is around the main market, which is one among many. The influx of traders from all parts of the country and Cameroon
invariably contributed to the town’s physical and population growth. The low price of commodities in Onitsha market, the wide range of goods, and the accessibility and low cost of transportation to and from
the town continue to draw people. Onitsha’s location on the Niger River is advantageous; in addition, the bridge over the Niger makes the town the only gateway between south-eastern and south-western Nigeria.The rapid growth in the size of the town and the market coincided with the period of formal occupation of southern Nigeria by the British when Onitsha market became a daily market. Over the last 300 or 400 years, Onitsha became the commercial hub of Nigeria, the focal point of canoe traffic bringing yams, beans, rice, maize, and imported merchandise from the upper Niger, the Benue valley, and the coast through Benin, Warri, and Sapele. Onitsha has historically been a collecting and distributing centre rather than a production centre, and this explains its vast trading area, which includes places as distant as Kano, Sokoto, Maiduguri, and Jos.Onitsha also grew to become a major industrial, educational, religious, and administrative centre. As an industrial centre it now houses the largest number of industries in Anambra State. As a major religious centre, it has the largest cathedrals for both the Anglican and Roman Catholic churches, east of the Niger . And as an administrative centre, Onitsha houses two local governments and has high courts and other government institutions. Onitsha’s growth and trading roots have resulted in cosmopolitanism

FatherOfJesus:
It's impossible not for feel relax the moment you sight the bridge while traveling from the west to the east as an Igbo man.
This a symbol of peace and resilience against multiple enemies.

You feel calm and joyful. It does not matter how long you have been away or even if you were born outside of Igbo land, you will still feel different whenever you see this bridge. You get this feeling of euphoria on the bridge, seeing the skyline of Onitsha.
And then when the bus or car drops down at onitsha, you take a deep breath and just feel relax like "nothing dey xup again".

UN habitat understand the spirit

PressMyButton:
Dude, try and understand English, i'm not talking about individual state rather SE in general. There's no melting pot, no commercial nerve center.

Waiting person no go hear from Jealous Yoruba minds on Nairaland, na today I hear say Onitsha isn't a commercial nerve center Chai una go kill person here you are empty

Read from UN habitat about Onitsha the highlighted,

Christistruth00:
Onitsha happened because of the Capital at Asaba
Asaba and Onitsha are only separated by the River Niger

You guys keep fooling yourself Fayose saw this problem and advice you guys to come to east to be trained you guys were insulting him, you guys waste so much time on social media

Christistruth00:
Onitsha happened because of the Capital at Asaba
Asaba and Onitsha are only separated by the River Niger

Yoruba are something else imagine reasoning, ewedu has really dealt with you guys brain, Onitsha the commercial hub and industrial hub developed because of Asaba please tell me how

PressMyButton:
You don't want anyone to wake you up from your dream. I can tell you there are many communities in SE looking like 1920 incarnate. Soludo visited one of those communities recently.

It only exist in your dumbo head, see riverline community with no access road except through water they still built better houses than typical Yoruba town

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3_dsW668m0?si=IwEOY_-ssseGtnki

marsman:
This place does not look like it is growing... look at how scanty the aerial pictures are. Except the state is going green there is nothing city like here.
Also poorly planned, I can literally see structures with no road access.

Compare the place to your village, these are not the cities in Anambra

Solsix:
What is the name of this hotel

GrandSwiss hotel Agulu

PressMyButton:
Whether there are bad roads or not, afterall there are bad roads in Lagos, Abuja. Ogun state as big as two southeast states and has been pretty much investor-friendly. You can only begin to pick up the pieces when you open up rather than being clannish.

Business friendly state in Nigeria
Anambra surpassed all the states in Southwest

PressMyButton:
Dude, i'm not the type you dump a 30secs Youtube videos to know what's going on in the southeast. There's nothing going on there. How many local companies do you have?, there are more hotels in southeast than there are factories. Can those few indigenous products compete?, how far do they go beyond the SE?. You need to emphasize more on a commercial city for the entire southeast than glorifying local villages.

you are very si.ll.y you seat in your backward state and think others are stagnant, today Anambra and Imo are top 5 on GDP these are states that faced brutal war, Anu come to Onitsha, Nnewi and Abia to see high concentration of indigenous industries, useless guys before the arguments was Southeast wasn't developed now you guys are changing the narrative

PressMyButton:
Pretty much everybody is back home having a blast, there are lots of fun, catching up with friends and families, different kinds of ceremonies all lined up at this festive period. However thrilling it might feel, it's nothing compared to making your home a home and not a guest house. The prevaling economic, social, territorial and regional realities throws a huge challenge to igbos to build a commercial center in the southeast. Almost 90% of the wealth transfered back home this December comes from outside. The fact remains that wealth is not distributed through crumbs sprinkling but by proper deliberate investments. The crumbs you take back home every year ending is unstainable to the development of the region. Several decades after, Igbos should be aggressive in replicating a Lagos, PH, Delta, or Kano in the southeast to boost sustainability. Would igbos ever challenge themselves to build home and attract investors than rushing down to catch the next bus going to other regions at the begining of a new year.

Ignorance is a big disease in west, Anambra alone have 48 standard markets, host many indigenous industries, same with Abia, watch this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-efnVsYh5Q8?si=cFqX9F1nhBNi-4nV