Promoters of Onitsha City Marathon, Onitsha Business School (OBS) have stated that over 2,000 athletes are expected in this year’s marathon in Onitsha, Anambra State.

Director of Onitsha Business School (OBS), Prof Olusegun Sogbesan stated this during a press conference to promote the contest which will take place in September this year.

“This year’s marathon will feature five international elite athletes, who are in the top 300 in the world. We are bringing them in from various countries, and up to 20 other foreign athletes will participate.

“We aim at featuring over 2,000 local athletes, and we will have up to 50 viewing centers across Anambra, and Delta States, for people who cannot make it to Onitsha to watch the race live.”
Sogbesan said the aim of Onitsha Business School in establishing the Onitsha City Marathon was to bring economic dimension to sports, for many local athletes.
“Everyday, we have people who throng the streets for exercise purposes, but they do it just for fitness sake. We want to bring economic dimensions to this fitness. We want young men who will earn from what they do.

“This is the initiative that we at Onitsha Business School have brought up as our social responsibility to both Onitsha our immediate environment and Nigeria. We want to put Onitsha on the map as a sports place, beyond the buying and selling that the city has become known for.”
The organisers disclosed that the prize money for victorious contestants is total prize money of $400,000 for foreign athletes and N10 million for local athletes.

https://sportingtribune.com/2000-foreign-local-athletes-to-run-in-2023-onitsha-city-marathon/
Nlpfmod

Onitsha is not safe for foreigners

This is second edition of Onitsha City Marathon

Below are the pictures of first Onitsha City Marathon

Jones4190:
Onitsha is not safe for foreigners

Na your state safe You guys plan to destroy South-east will not work


This Onitsha City Marathon

More pictures of Onitsha City Marathon

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Anambra is beautiful

Home of billionaires

God will continue to bless the entire south east states

We rise

Onitsha City Marathon press conference held in Onitsha business school conference hall
Nlpfmod

Beware of ipob!

While this is a laudable initiative in its second edition, the security situation in anambra state should be of immediate concern to any intended participant.

Eh! Where? Come again! Was it planned before US saga or just new? Have you taken approval from Finland man? This is very good, but please tight security apparatus must be put in place

Is Onitsha still in Anambra?

I wish them good luck.

Meanwhile the useless APC sponsored media are busy running their useless propaganda all in a futile effort to paint the SE as some state-of-emergency type of unsafe region. Every pockets of violence reported in the SE is blown out of proportion by the media and idiots here are fast to push it to FP. Meanwhile we are witnessing ethnic genocide in the North Central where an average of 30-90 people are slaughtered in a SINGLE FUCKING DAY.

Damage Control. Sudan is more peaceful than the east as we speak

Onitsha is not safe. No one will participate in any Competition in an unsafe environment like Onitsha.

Afamed:
Damage Control. Sudan is more peaceful than the East as we speak

True talk

Afamed:
Damage Control. Sudan is more peaceful than the east as we speak

According to brains beclouded by drug addiction.

Which foreigner want come run for onitsha after what happened to us embassy staffs

PrinceOfLagos:
Anambra is beautiful

Home of billionaires

God will continue to bless the entire south east states

We rise

Na LIE.
There is nothing beautiful about Anambra.

Jones4190:
Onitsha is not safe for foreigners

Is Abuja safe for Nigerians? ISWAP went to kuje prison in Abuja, freed many terrorists.

Jones4190:
Onitsha is not safe for foreigners

A yorubaman is the organizer. Move away from your comfort zone coward

At this time of terrible unabating insecurity and threat in Anambra

Everyone avoid Anambra for now it is very unsafe

Governor Soludo is even setting up a Missing Persons Commission

It is that bad

Jones4190:
Onitsha is not safe for foreigners

Onitsha is not safe for anyone. Including IGBO People.

MasterJayJay:

Is Abuja safe for Nigerians? ISWAP went to kuje prison in Abuja, freed many terrorists.

Abuja is safe. The only unsafe place in Nigeria is the East

Bighead9:


Abuja is safe. The only unsafe place in Nigeria is the East

According to babablu bulabu reporters.

MasterJayJay:
According to babablu bulabu reporters.

You are wrong. It is according to Aba reporters.

olatade:
Beware of ipob!

Ipob are good people we don't have issue with them in East

Hope soludo will sweep the streets, we wouldn't want to be disgraced on how dirty sandy onitsha reads looks