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Markets, makers, money, and the firms that still sit on Igbo credit.

Aba’s 24-Hour Light Is No Longer a Rumour. It Is a Grid.

Governor Alex Otti told investors in June 2026 that Aba and eight neighbouring councils now run on Geometric Power — about 188 megawatts, off the national grid.

Adaeze Okonkwo · 9 Jun 2026 · 1 min · 0 views

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Igba Bọyị and the Made-in-Aba Factory Floor

The Igbo apprenticeship did not begin in a seminar. It is how Ariaria still turns a boy with no capital into a man with a line of shoes.

Adaeze Okonkwo · 20 May 2026 · 0 views

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Onitsha Main Market Still Teaches the Syllabus Lagos Fintech Did Not Write

The stalls in these photographs are not a museum of trade. They are one of West Africa’s densest credit systems — still informal, still fast, still Igbo.

Chinedu Eze · 2 Apr 2026 · 0 views

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The Second Niger Bridge Changed the Hinge. The Market Noticed.

Opened to traffic in December 2022 and inaugurated in 2023, the 1.6-kilometre crossing between Asaba and Onitsha is now part of how the East moves goods.

Chinedu Eze · 18 Mar 2026 · 0 views