₦airaland Forum

Ebubu3:
Ebonyi and Abia are blood relatives na
Ohaozara, Afikpo in Ebonyi inter-married with Arochukwu in Abia state

Nice to know Otti and Umahi are bloodly related

It’ll make political alliance easier

Umahi should create multi lane highway similar to Onitsha in Enugu and Aba along the expressway

I keep saying it. Aba has the best inner streets connectivity in Nigeria. Some places with useless flyovers don't have Inner street roads

SpaceTour:
This is a fact that’s known by everyone

Nice pictures

Day169:
Wike appointment feels like a straight 3rd term, as a governor.

Feels like but it's not. Elected office is different from appointed office. The president is the governor of Abuja

The president is the governor of Abuja. Not lame duck appointed minister. If anything is wrong in Abuja, the president is totally responsible

horsepower102:
Onitsha main market is actually bigger if you look past the traditional space of main market. Onitsha main market has a spillover effect which Ariaria doesn’t have much of. A lot of surrounding spaces around Main market have been converted to market. If you consider that factor, then Main market is much bigger in reality.

But that's exactly what someone said before the argument ensued. Actual main market is not bigger than Ariaria but it spilled into residential streets

Bestmanfornow:
Outside main market there are other big markets in Onitsha and enviro

For sure. Onitsha is far more commercial than Aba with numerous markets scattered around it. But Ariaria is the largest single market by landmass

MTNnews:
I swear many of you foolish souls never cease to amuse me. An Azikwe that appointed an Igbo as VC to Universities in the Western region is not hat you fools call a nationalist. I swear many igbos like you deserve to be beaten to your doom with razor sharpened matchet

But that is exactly what nationalism is about. Meanwhile, Akintola control universities in SW and not zik. All universities were built and ownedby the regional governments in those days. Awolowo was a very local person. He doesn't deserve anything named after him outside SW

Bestmanfornow:
This is old part of Main market you can see how it was built, then see the new side that littered with plazas

Guy, Ariaria is larger in landmass, Onitsha may be larger in volume of goods

Ofodirinwa:
I just saw a measurement and they're almost equal but Onitsha has a slight edge. daalu

That's for perimeter, Ariaria is larger in Area

Bestmanfornow:
Main market perimeter and area is bigger I don't know if you are blind

Convert the square meters to square kilometer

Another agbado coward

Max24:
See the way they are sweating to bring out a
convincing monument for Awolowo. Indeed Obidients are the most tribalistic group in Nigeria. More reason to deny them Presidency till 2100.
OP, your point is taken. You asked a very intelligent and soul-searching question.

- Omo Oduduwa!

Awolowo was a local champion. Why not show us things named after Awolowo from other parts of Nigeria especially Abuja? His influence never went beyond his local yoruba enclave

Awolowo hostel, UNN

Bestmanfornow:
For you to access Main market well go through Niger street towards Head-bridge Onitsha that where the market start then from their you will get to the heart of Main market

Going by your map, Ariaria is larger than main market in landmass (landmass is measured in area not circumference)
But Onitsha may be larger in volume of goods because of clusters of multistorey plazas

E-bola badluck

jmoore:
Dey play. 150k na change? How much are they paying for rent in their homes?

You have no idea how much these traders make. Who do you think built those multistorey blocks of flat that fill the city and spill over to neighboring villages? Do you think it's Abuja senators or oil workers in PH or white collar employees in Lagos? No my brother, it's the "dirty illiterate trader" and each building cost nothing less than 30 million and some finish it in one year

lexylaw40:
It's no news TODAY IS MONDAY

But skull mining happens daily

mrvitalis:
Says who? Walmart GDP contribution is bigger than any state in Nigeria

Oh Amazon

Aba feeds South South, 50% of South East, 30% of North Central.. 60% southern cameron, Gabon, equatorial guinea with goods

And aba has great production sector too

A huge junk of what's sold in aba is made in aba

Walmart and Amazon are into commerce. While Aba is no pushover in manufacturing, commercial activities is backbone of it's GDP, same with Anambra

crossfm:
You mean in his 8year he wasn't able to finish the market?. He didn't prioritize it if it's so.

I will love to see that market blossom to it's glory.

He didn't start reconstruction of Ariaria from his first tenure since the orjis left Aba in shambles. He started from roads and inner streets. He started Ariaria projects very much later and still achieved a lot there

mrvitalis:
After being to ariara I was wonder how Onitsha main market would be like since they say it's bigger than ariara...

Growing up in port Harcourt the biggest market I knew was mile 1 , mile 3 and town market

But going to school in nsukka mehn ogiga market nsukka was bigga than any market in port Harcourt and get people kept telling me it's small small... I'm like small? Ah

Mehn commerce in igbo land is something else sha

They keep underrating commerce. They don't know that commerce contribute to GDP more than manufacturing and other cooperate sectors

jmoore:
It is not about the road but the refuse. It is an eyesore. Is it the FG that will clear the refuse?

Will people dump refuse on good roads? Did you not see the refuse dump on all the inner roads being reconstructed and it stopped after reconstruction?

mrvitalis:
I have challenged people here on naira land for years

outside Lagos pick two other South West state for every road their governors did for the last 8 years I would post 2 done by Ikpeazu of Abia ...no body has taken up this challenge... Hope u won't run like them too

Thank God for Otti's media crew, they did same for Onitsha till Obiano invested in media and humbled them

mrvitalis:
Exactly osisoama and Aba port Harcourt road are not Aba really... It's like judging Lagos with otta

Where you passed is where 90% of Aba visitors visit and that's where bring the bad name because that's were ariara is

That place u pass is not upto 10% of ABA

This is exactly what the OP is saying

PH expressway pass through the periphery of Aba far away from the City. Look at Aba Owerri road that connects the city to PH expressway via osisioma.

Mynd44:
This kind of talk is for those who have not visited Aba multiple times.

Those who have passed Osisioma, front of Aba North LGA Secretariat, the Aba-PHC road where half the road was turned into a waste site and the general state of insecurity will argue otherwise.

Aba needs Abia state to have a good governor that will make things better and help turn the place into what the eldorado the residents want to see. Hopefully, Otti will do well, he has had a long time to prepare for the job ahead.

No. Excuses

Imagine? So if you pass Zuba expressway to Kaduna you will use it to judge Abuja? Do you know that from Lokoja to Kaduna along the expressway you will drive over one and half hours inside FCT without seeing Abuja city at all? Or maybe we should use Makoko and Ajegunle to judge Lagos? Osisioma is not Aba though part of ngwa clan and greater Aba metroplis. PH expressway is federal road and completely off Aba City center. You are seeing pictures with your koro koro eyes and still arguing what you know nothing about

Capital or no capital, does it mean you have surrended ilorin fully to them?

Rostikol:
Great stuff.

One thing you guys need to realise is that Nigeria is not really that far behind these western countries.

It is just that we ignore these ‘little’ things that make the difference between our cities looking like New York, or looking like Mogadishu.

We have all the nice structures and buildings on ground already. Simply complete the look by adding sidewalks, covered drains, and there will be no difference between ONITSHA and LONDON.

London buildings are even older.

So ONITSHA will be finer than LONDON once we do this.

Mogadishu is more beautiful than London

IBB was right after all

ZitaMall:
Story.

A land captured can be retaken back by its owners if the will is there.

Ronu cowards have no such will