ABA MAN

From Made-in-Aba to Make-in-Aba By Enyinnaya Appolos The rhythm is changing. Our people are now proud promoters and users of Made-in-Aba products. It is time to move the campaign a notch higher to Make-in-Aba. What that simply mean is that we are calling on investors and makers of all kinds of goods and services to come to Aba to make, sell and create wealth for themselves and Aba people. Did I hear you ask what have we done on the issue of security? Good question. We are doing a lot and are ready to do much more even up to the roots of the security challenges we experience from time to time. We recognize that the most viable and near permanent solution to insecurity is to create job opportunities that will take hitherto idle but creative minds off the streets and have them put their ingenuity to work at various factories making made-in-Aba brands. The most viable and long lasting guarantee to security is to employ those willing to work while allowing the criminal justice ...

WHY ABA IS CALLED ENYIMBA CITY. From Igbo history, some people bore and still bear names of deities of their areas like Kamalu and Agwu, which their parents believed played one major role or the other in shaping their lives. Also in some places like Enugu (Hill top) and others, people derive their names from features found in their localities. Therefore, most Igbo names have meanings attached to them. Eze Ikonne, the former chairman of Abia State Council of Traditional Rulers who is the oldest and longest serving traditional ruler in Aba had earlier in the year, having been born on January 1, 1929, celebrated his 85th birthday anniversary and 41 years on the throne as the monarch of Eziama community, one of the Osusu people that were the first to settle in Aba. This is not different with Aba, popularly known as the Enyimba City. Despite what the city is passing through now in terms of infrastructural decay, it remains undoubtedly a major commercial hub of the South East. The so...

Country   Nigeria State Abia LGA Aba South  and  Aba North Government  •  Governor Okezie Ikpeazu  ( PDP ) Area [1]  • Total 72 km 2  (28 sq mi) Elevation 205 m (673 ft) Population  (2006 census) [1]  • Total 534,265  • Density 7,400/km 2  (19,000/sq mi)  • Ethnicity Igbo , others  • Ethnicity density 7,000/km 2  (20,000/sq mi)  • Religion Christianity,  Omenala Time zone WAT  ( UTC+1 ) Postcode 450... [ citation needed ] Area code(s) 082 Climate Am Website http://www.abiastateonline.com/ Aba  is a city in the southeast of  Nigeria  and the commercial nerve center of  Abia State . Upon the creation of Abia state in 1991, Aba was divided into two local governments areas namely; Aba South and Aba North. Aba south is the main city centre and the heart beat of Abia State, south-east Nigeria. It is...

ABA has the symbol of The Elephant. The other name by which Aba is known is ENYIMBA. ENYIMBA means the elephant people. Elephant is a symbol of strenght and gigantism.An Aba man has gigantic ideas. He does not make small plans. He is filled filled with energy and strenght of the elephant. He can start small but he will never remain small because his dreams are gigantuan. The Aba man does not give up easily. He fights till his last breathe. Recall that it was when Aba  fell in the Biafran war  that The Biafrans surrendered. There is a people who clearly have the same characteristics and attributes of The Aba man: The Jews.

ABA, ALSO KNOWN AS ENYIMBA CITY IS OUR PASSION. THERE IS MORE TO THE ABA MAN THAN YOU KNOW NOW. WE SHALL TRY TO BRING THESE OUT.