According to recent data released by different international bodies i.e mckinsey,
Studies shows that they largest built up area and also the Latest emerging mega city in Nigeria
Is the onitsha metropolis area (onitsha/Nnewi/ihala/olru axis)
Anyone with access to Google map can easily see how Nigerians have almost built up the entire area from onitsha in Anambra state down to orlu in IMO state, and are still building more
This new emergin megacity is 2x the size of Lagos (Nigeria biggest city as of today) and 8th times bigger than port Harcourt, the upcoming already have 3 airport serving it, with one being the 4th busiest airport in Nigeria aside the Lagos, pH and abj airport
this new upcoming megacity currently being administered by two state has alot of private, government own institutions of learning also
Alot of real estate development is going around in the upcoming urban metropolis, the major cities and sub urban areas that have clustered together to form this metropolis are onitsha (being the principal city) oba, nnewi, ekwulobia,ihala, orlu, Nkwere other notable towns that has been merged together includes obosi, awka, nkpor, to mention but a few
It's also projected that the City by 2040, with the current ongoing expansion rate the city will hold a population of 30 million people, McKinsey predict that this onitsha metropolis and Lagos will become heavy dominant in human development. It's also expected to further merge with owerri the capital city of imo state and Asaba the capital city in Delta to form a very big metropolis
Below are current picture from goggle map
Of the already built up area

https://www.tekedia.com/the-evolving-nigerias-economic-and-human-geography-the-latent-opportunity-of-uyo/

This exactly how various megacities of the world where formed i.e Tokyo
Alot of people in Nigeria don't even know how far onitsha has expanded (the still think it's the tiny ancient 52km community the British made)
Others even thinks all igbos are outside there region, while it's just a fraction, our cities are expanding at massive rate!

Please I opened this thread for meaningful suggestions, so everyone can share there opinion and post pictures of any of they cites that has merged together to form this large BuiltUp urban area

Also special thanks to the Anambra people, that has continued to build markets here and there, which has kept this areas booming and expanding, but now, I think it's time for planing
Serious City planning
We can't afford to have another Lagos
We need something better
PO lead the foundation by creating mutiple roads interlinking rural areas to nearest Urban space

Some pictures of the emerging mega City
Please if you're In the east help us with pictures
Cc:

Nigercity:
Some pictures of the emerging mega City

beautiful Houses

South east is blessed

001Lagos:
beautiful Houses

South east is blessed

SE should not allow envious tribes to come destroy it in the name of civil war.

Some areas in the upcoming city

Pictures of awka Anambra state

Validated:


SE should not allow envious tribes to come destroy it in the name of civil war.

God will continue to shame the haters of the ever progressive south east

Validated:


SE should not allow envious tribes to come destroy it in the name of civil war.

The main reason am not a fan of ipob, we are silently and gradually building something big in Nigeria
Below are pictures of owerri

Truth be told the Igboman is the only one holding himself down...

Let all Igbos unite and make the rest of Nigeria who despise them look foolish...

The greatest resource there is is quality human capital...

001Lagos:
beautiful Houses

South east is blessed

A proper City plan for oba,nnewi,ihala is needed so this City doesn't end up becoming another Lagos, because everyone is building house anyhow

Pictures of Onitsha city Anambra

Orlu

Pictures of orlu IMO state

Nigercity:
Orlu IMO state

More developed than most state capitals

As urban centers grow planned urbanisation is sorely needed or the Onicha-Olu axis megacity will be dysfunctiona and car dependent. Urban developers should take note to promote communal middle housing so people can move their extended family towards the city and end the disintegration of african families. Public transit is also very important, no amount of flyover or expanded roads can beat the efficiency of trams and subways!

Why folks from South west keep trolling us,
The don't know what's going on in the east in few decades from now e go clear
We would be having a bigger mega city,
Owerri is already more developed than ikeja, (in terms of building pattern, planing and road s) and it's going to join the fast merging city in no distant time

Below pictures of onitsha Anambra the entrance and gateway to SE

Nigercity:
Why folks from South west keep trolling us,
The don't know what's going on in the east in few decades from now e go clear
We would be having a bigger mega city,
Owerri is already more developed than ikeja, (in terms of building pattern, planing and road s) and it's going to join the fast merging city in no distant time

Below pictures of onitsha the entrance and gateway to SE

Do your thing and no mention SW, dem use Yoruba swear for you??
Why always comparing yourself to them, na only them dey Nigeria?

Meanwhile tell your brother from Anambra that I'm waiting for him on that thread, he should not run away...

Maazieze:
As urban centers grow planned urbanisation is sorely needed or the Onicha-Olu axis megacity will be dysfunctiona and car dependent. Urban developers should take note to promote communal middle housing so people can move their extended family towards the city and end the disintegration of african families. Public transit is also very important, no amount of flyover or expanded roads can beat the efficiency of trams and subways!

Exactly trains and subway is the best
And unfortunately we have none at the moment
I wished Anambra state was ruled by someone like umahi, he started a train transit touching most important place in Ebonyi although it's still uncompleted at the moment

If you add Asaba and owerri to the mix , you might end up with another chonqing or Shanghai. A city of more than 30 million people witha gdp bigger than most African countries

BentizilL2:

Do your thing and no mention SW, dem use Yoruba swear for you??
Why always comparing yourself to them, na only them dey Nigeria?

Meanwhile tell your brother from Anambra that I'm waiting for him on that thread, he should not run away...

Lolz you're so inscured,
There was no comparison here, if there was then it was with Tokyo not some nonsense places in Nigeria
I only point out the fact that, I wouldn't like the onitsha metropolis that's currently getting bigger to be like Lagos (a typical example of learning from our brothers mistake) it was no comparison,
I don't see anything in Nigeria yet!
Maybe Abuja to an extent

BentizilL2:

Do your thing and no mention SW, dem use Yoruba swear for you??
Why always comparing yourself to them, na only them dey Nigeria?

Meanwhile tell your brother from Anambra that I'm waiting for him on that thread, he should not run away...

See the rubbish you bragging with. Bungalows everywhere

kettykings:
If you add Asaba and owerri to the mix , you might end up with another chonqing or Shanghai. A city of more than 30 million people witha gdp bigger than most African countries

Exactly bro
Whosever made Asaba the state capital of Delta did the Igbos a Very good thing, today All onitsha movies are been shot in Asaba and also Asaba is being treated like a special separate City unlike before when it was just an ordinary suburb of onitsha, they are also the one holding the Igbo tag in Delta, (there igboness is very strong) unlike what we have today in Rivers and other part of Delta igboid community (the onitsha central Igbo is there lingual Franca)

kettykings:
If you add Asaba and owerri to the mix , you might end up with another chonqing or Shanghai. A city of more than 30 million people witha gdp bigger than most African countries

Why are you adding Asaba?

When did Asaba become part of South East?

Nsuka too is forming a large metropolis from Igbo etti down to opi

Although it's not like what we have in other Igbo cities where 5-7 story building is the other of the day, it's mostly bungalow

Buddha3:


Why are you adding Asaba?

When did Asaba become part of South East?

Are you from Asaba?
Also
Do you understand the meaning of metropolis and mega city? (City expanding joining together to form one city, like what we have in onitsha/nnewi, ihala and orlu today)
Do I need to remind you that onitsha and Asaba are the same people separated by river Niger, the have the same dialect of Igbo language!
Also metropolis doesn't consider region, Istanbul is a mega city that lies both In eroupe and Asia

Nigercity:

Are you from Asaba?
Also
Do you understand the meaning of metropolis and mega city? (City expanding joining together to form one city, like what we have in onitsha/nnewi, ihala and orlu today)
Do I need to remind you that onitsha and Asaba are the same people separated by river Niger, the have the same dialect of Igbo language!
Also metropolis doesn't consider region, Istanbul is a mega city both In eroupe and Asia

You didn't answer my question.

By virtue of recognised and gazetted geographical regions and settings, why are you labeling Asaba as part of South East in your permutations?

I have no business arguing the differences between a metropolis and a mega city with you. But under what guise are you including Asaba in the South East? Because you have Igbo speaking indigenes in Asaba? Because Asaba and Onitsha are both seperated by just the Niger river?

Please, kindly stop perpetuating mischief and misinformation. If you want to achieve the metropolis status by combining cities in the East through infrastructural development, by all means, have at it. But kindly keep Asaba out of your calculations. Don't cause problems that you may be unable to solve tomorrow.

Buddha3:


You didn't answer my question.

By virtue of recognised and gazetted geographical regions and settings, why are you labeling Asaba as part of South East in your permutations?

I have no business arguing the differences between a metropolis and a mega city with you. But under what guise are you including Asaba in the South East? Because you have Igbo speaking indigenes in Asaba? Because Asaba and Onitsha are both seperated by just the Niger river?

Please, kindly stop perpetuating mischief and misinformation. If you want to achieve the metropolis status by combining cities in the East through infrastructural development, by all means, have at it. But kindly keep Asaba out of your calculations. Don't cause problems that you may be unable to solve tomorrow.

Check my post
I didn't add Asaba because of people like you, despite the fact that onitsha and Asaba are one, (just separated by water)
I only mentioned towns that have glued together with onitsha in such a way that when traveling along the owerri-onistha Express way you wouldn't notice the difference between these town as everywhere have been built up, nevertheless someone suggested if Asaba is added it would be more cool and you started feeling inscured,
No
one labelled Asaba as part of South East
Asaba is a proud Igbo City In south South, at a time the wanted to become the 6th south eastern state but some igboid communities in Delta opted out

Nigercity:


Check my post
I didn't add Asaba because of people like you, despite the fact that onitsha and Asaba are one, (just separated by water)
I only mentioned towns that have glued together with onitsha in such a way that when traveling along the owerri-onistha Express way you wouldn't notice the difference between these town as everywhere have been built up, nevertheless someone suggested if Asaba is added it would be more cool and you started feeling inscured,
Non one labelled Asaba as part of South East
Asaba is a proud Igbo City In south South, at a time the wanted to become the 6th south eastern state but some igboid communities in Delta opted out

Nwanna why are you wasting your time explaining to a cheap paid miscreantt?
Post your truths and ignore the riff-raff.

Orlu

MrColdsweat:

Nwanna why are you wasting your time explaining to a cheap paid miscreantt?
Post your truths and ignore the riff-raff.

Dalu nwanne mu

Traffic in your so called mega city is so scanty because everyone has run away from the city. Only houses that look like coffin where Igbos that have fled to SW for opportunity come to be buried.

For those counting development by building duplex, I laugh. Where are your industries or work for the average person? It’s not by going all over the world to sell drugs so you oppress your village people in December. Yet nothing works in the East. By the way, for hot climate, bungalow is the best. Go around the world and check it, except you don’t have enough land. People who build duplex abd mansions that block the flow of air should pay special fees.