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Onitsha

a port in S Nigeria, in Anambra State on the Niger River: industrial centre. Pop.: 565 000 (2005 est.)
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Onitsha

 

a city in Nigeria on the left bank of the Niger River, in Enugu State. Population, 197,100(1971). A highway junction and the center of an oil-palm growing region, Onitsha has textile and palm-oil production.

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According to Turven, a lady simply identified as Nana took her to Onitsha from her village in Lantang Local Government Area of Plateau State, without her parent's consent.
Kumapayi said the Onitsha accident involved two vehicles, a Toyota Lexus car with registration number ABH 178 RC and Toyota Corolla car with registration number FST 555 AJ.
The victims were heavily sedated when they were being transported to Nigeria to avoid the risk of them raising alarm.After receiving this information, the BNI reportedly followed up on it and confirmed the existence of a baby factory ring in the Eastern Nigerian commercial town of Onitsha, where young girls are sold off to kingpins for the purpose of making babies for adoption by rich families in Nigeria and elsewhere.
This paper examines private sector corruption among Onitsha traders and the factors underpinning it.
In the predominantly southern Christian city of Onitsha, at least six Muslims with origins in the north were beaten to death Tuesday by mobs, according to the report.
MUSLIMS fled the southeast Nigerian city of Onitsha and corpses still smouldered in its streets yesterday as two days of sectarian violence that killed more than 80 people appeared to subside.
Horatio Alger novels, published in the late part of the nineteenth century in the United States, and Onitsha pamphlets, published in the aftermath of World War II by Nigerian printers.
The first contract, valued at USD34m over two years, involves the design and construction of a 132-kilometre transmission line between the cities of Benin and Onitsha, and includes installation of composite fibre optic cable throughout the line to strengthen the country's telecommunications and data communications capabilities.
Born in the Archdiocese of Onitsha in Nigeria in 1932, Francis Arinze was one of 35 siblings who grew up in a country where Catholics and Muslims lived side by side.
Under the agreement Motorola's Network Solutions Sector business will deploy its WiLL infrastructure at 800MHz to provide Intercellular Nigeria with capacity and coverage in the cities of Abuja, Onitsha, Kano and Kaduna and to expand the operator's existing networks in Lagos and Port Harcourt.
George Offiah, 63, a chief magistrate in Nigeria, was shot dead by thieves as he drove through the south- eastern city of Onitsha in his Mercedes.
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