NewNigeriaMind:
This is no news, we have always known the south east is the most backward region in Nigeria. Even the North with the poverty is cleaner.

Take Nimbo community for instance, the whole town is made up of mud houses with no tarred road and Enugu happens to be the Capital of SE, HOW MUCH MORE THE HELL HOLE CALLED ONITCHA

Ariani:


Another Yoruba sentimental being.

One minute, Igbos are accused of being too tribal and only care about their follow Igbos or perceived friends, and the next, they a're accused of being unable to bridge divides and form a common front.

The truth is that Yorubas are obsessed with Ndiigbo, the exact reason they seldom sound rational whenever a matter have to do with Igbos.

GaggleNSwallow:
Onitsha!

dunkem21:



Checks date of registration .. 12th May, 2016 ..


Continues to Zobo

dunkem21:


No mind them ..Some people no dey travel at all

Armaggedon:
If this article was a comprehension question, 80% would have failed.

An article talks about polution caused by rapid industralization and carbon emission but our so-called educated youths understood it as dirtiness .

This country has no future

Armaggedon:
If this article was a comprehension question, 80% would have failed.

An article talks about polution caused by rapid industralization and carbon emission but our so-called educated youths understood it as dirtiness .

This country has no future

TheNonce:




So if I call them "dirty, filthy, stinking ipob youths" now, I would be very accurate?


Solid!

Armaggedon:
If this article was a comprehension question, 80% would have failed.

An article talks about polution caused by rapid industralization and carbon emission but our so-called educated youths understood it as dirtiness .

This country has no future

Karanka:
I see a lot of folks here don't understand what the post is talking about. Being the most polluted city in the world doesn't generally denote dirtiness; rather,it is based on the particulate matters generated from the city which is in the air. These particulate matters come from sources like soots from vehicles,industries, construction activities,wood-burning etc - generally, industrialization. It's almost a problem with fast growing cities where a lot of industrial activities go on. Countries like China,Saudi Arabia etc have been battling with this for long. Air pollution poses health risks,which can in turn affect the economy of a place. The Nigerian cities affected should simply enact effective policies to mitigate against this,even as they continue with their industrial boom.

Joe4lv:
@OP,please give us the criteria for this rating and not just using 'polluted'. Is it noise pollution, environmental pollution, etc.

You don't just post something without write-ups to back your claims.

Until you edit your post and give us the bases of those ranking, your post remains null and void.

I can even see umuahia there and I hope it is not what am thinking?

ak47mann:
Onitsha facing the same pollution just like china bejin this is what you suffer when a city are congested with numerous factories litter every corner hereby causing air pollution

Bigprozzie:


Apart from Ipob activities, are you good at anything else?

You cant see the chart? It clearly states it measures PM10 Particle Concentration. You should have just googled it



Igbos are illiterates

If it said Lagos was the most polluted, you wont argue

omonla555:
Upon IPOB gragra when Nigeria is still helping them.

What happens when they gained independence?

asha90:
Onitsha as a city does not even have up to 20 filling stations, not to talk of 100. This is the reason the report in it's entirety is only fit for dustbin..LOL

Poweredbreww:
Dirty dirty people

oduastates:
A foreigner's observations/ comments - onitsha and Nigeria at large
XIAN YORK
pulled from the post link

Corruption and a missing state lie at the heart of Onitsha's troubles with pollution.

I have passed through Onitsha twice, both times spending long periods in stationary traffic. Eighteen years ago Nigeria barely collected any form of taxation, it's road network was unmaintained, no-one drove at night for fear of attack. Public utilities were not paid for by any form of organised metering but by extortion carried out be collectors who arrived at a property, made a quick visual assessment of the owner's potential worth then demanded a sum they thought the owner might pay. When a road collapsed it stayed that way.

Onitsha is the meeting point of trade and trade routes in West Africa, a gridlock chaos of roads, markets, traders, buses, lorries, taxis, and pollution. In Europe we view buses and taxis as a way of reducing pollution. In Nigeria the lack of regulation, the ultimate free market so loved by the right, conspires to transform these modes of transportation as dirty as private cars. There was no effective time table that I could see for public transport. Internal flights took off when they were full and the same was true of mini-buses and taxis. Having paid a taxi driver to take us from Obosi to Lagos (because the internal flight in Enugu had failed to materialise at all), a friend and I traveled west towards the capital.

Approaching Onitsha, the taxi driver left the motorway and headed into the centre of Onitsha, a cacophony of gridlock mayhem. He eventually parked his car in the middle of a vast informal space that served as bus depot, taxi depot, market, car park. He got out of the car without saying a word and left us in the full heat of the day surrounded by tens of thousands of people milling around and the thick sweet pollution of thousands of mini-buses, lorries, and private cabs. This is West Africa's transport hub. No visible structure, though there certainly must be an informal one. No road network, just a vast open space that people drive across in whatever direction they choose ... very slowly. A sea of humanity parting this way and that to afford passage to fume coughing trundling taxis, coaches, lorries, and mini-buses.

We left once the driver had found two more people willing to pay to be taken to Lagos. We had already paid for all four spaces in the taxi. Didn't bother the driver, he had an opportunity to make more money and he was taking it. The new passengers didn't even say hello. We sat there pressed together, now obliged to carry our hand luggage on our knees for hours more as we headed back to the motorway and on towards the pollution of Lagos.

[b]On the motorways of Nigeria you regularly passed the burned out shells of vehicles that didn't make it. They are sometimes half in and half out of the forest. You pass groups of people standing beside broken down vehicles no doubt praying that someone will pick them up before darkness falls. You get stopped by posses of soldiers demanding payment. You stop for nothing unless you see a weapon pointed at you. Sometimes the road has disappeared, whole motorways can tumble and slide down a hill, leaving a single lane to fight over where once there were four.

This is what a failed state is. No programme to maintain infrastructure, everyone simply getting what they can to make it through the day. What is true of roads is true of everything else. Build where you like, build as high as you like, no health & safety, no engineers to check the block of flats can take the three extra storeys being constructed on the roof. Telephone wires clumped on telegraph poles like candy floss on a stick.A raw scramble to survive and to make a profit. And millions of people trying to maintain their dignity and treat others as best as they can and enjoy life in spite of it all. This is why Onitsha is the most polluted city in Africa.

Until there is a functioning state there can be no functioning Nigeria.[/b]

Generalyemi:


Yoruba calling Igbo dirty people....nawao