CITY IN FOCUS
ABA
THE INDUSTRIAL NERVE CORE OF
A
ABIA STATE
ba is a metropolis in the southeast of Nigeria and the industrial nerve core of Abia State. Aba is genuinely a city after everybody's heart. Immediately after the creation of Abia state in 1991, Aba has two local governments areas namely; Aba South and Aba North. Aba south is the fundamental town centre and the coronary heart beat of Abia State, located on the Aba River. Villages that made up Aba are; Aba-Ukwu, EziukwuAba, Obuda-Aba, Umuokpoji-Aba and few different ones from Ohazu merged with Aba to achieve administrative convenience. The establishment of Aba as a city was with the aid of the Ngwa clan of Igbo People of Nigeria as a market settlement. Later, a military post was positioned there through the British colonial administration in 1901 alongside the Aba River west bank and at the intersection of main roads to Port Harcourt, Owerri, Umuahia, Ikot Ekpene, and Ikot Abasi. The metropolis became an accumulating point for agricultural products such as palm oil and palm kernels following the railway made by the British, running through it to Port Harcourt in 1915. Aba is a critical urban settlement and industrial centre in an area surrounded by small villages and towns. The indigenous people of Aba are the Ngwas known and regarded as craftsmen. Aba had a population of 534,265 as of 2006 census. The premier village in Aba is Aba-Ukwu and making it to refer to late Eze W.E Ukaegbu of Aba-Ukwu as the 9th Grand Son of Aba. Hence the proprietors of Aba are often referred to as Aba la Ohazu indigenes and Chief Ogbonna Uruakpa Nkwoha of Eziukwu Village was once made the King of Aba and the solely recognised Royal throne through the Queen of England. It, in the end, grew to 60 |
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