ABA: Abandoned or neglected? 40 images of a city in decay

For a first time visitor, Aba cuts a pitiable sight. Put mildly, it is an urban jungle.

Always revered for its enterprise, Enyimba city, as it is fondly called, houses one of Africa’s largest commercial enclaves called Ariaria market. Its artisans have been celebrated as a unique class of innovators attracting billions of Naira in investment.

Ripples Nigeria took a tour of the city and returns with sordid tales of the unexpected. Once vibrant, the city is now a shadow of its old self.

With a layout that looks every inch the work of an amateur draughtsman, Aba has become decrepit, overtaken by mal-administration. The decay literarily jumps at you with a choking stench.

We avail you 40 (forty) pictures of the rot that Aba has become, and hope that the administration of Governor Okezie Ikpeazu would take strategic steps to return the city to glory.

1. Ngwa road close to New Market (Ahia Ohuru)

2. Ngwa road along New Market (Ahia Ohuru) gate

3. Dandiko by Ngwa road

4. Emejiaka street by Ngwa road

5. Along Ngwa road morning market

6. Arondinzogu street by Ngwa road

7. Dike road, off Ngwa road

8. Dilapidated drainage system at School road by Adazi

9. Garbage and grasses take over gutter at School road by Adazi

10. Another view of the School road gutter

11. Dumpsite at School road

12. Ngwa road along Mbieri street

13. Old court, off Ngwa road

14. Ngwa road, off Dike road

15. Ndoki road by East

16. Ngwa road by East

17. Refuse dump at Ngwa road beside Papa Jumbo Fast Food & Ice Cream

18. Obiora road by East

19. Opobo road along Ehere market, Ogbor Hill

20. Eziukwu road by CPS

21. Dumpsite at Jubilee road by Asa road

22. Kings street by Azikiwe road

23. Cemetery road by Asa road

24. Cemetery road along Skye Bank

25. Port-Harcourt road along Hollywood

26. Port-Harcourt road along Assemblies of God Bookshop

27. Olewe street, off Port-Harcourt road

28. Amaogbonna roundabout by Eziukwu/Azikiwe road

29. Omuma road along Apostolic Christian Church Mission

30. Faulks road by Ikonne street

31. Umuojima junction along Aba Port-Harcourt express way

32. Osisioma express way

33. Aba-Owerri road, Umungasi near Rhema University

34. Ohazu road by Obohia road

35. Ozuomba road by Nkwo Ngwa market, Obohia

36. Osusu road along ST John Anglican Church

37. Port-Harcourt road by Uratta junction

38. Ndiuche street, off Ngwa road

39. Osusu road along Prexy Computer Training Institute

40. Ohanku road along Emole street

Join the conversation

Opinions

See more

Support Ripples Nigeria, hold up solutions journalism

Balanced, fearless journalism driven by data comes at huge financial costs.

As a media platform, we hold leadership accountable and will not trade the right to press freedom and free speech for a piece of cake.

If you like what we do, and are ready to uphold solutions journalism, kindly donate to the Ripples Nigeria cause.

Your support would help to ensure that citizens and institutions continue to have free access to credible and reliable information for societal development.

Donate Now