The Cathedral Basilica of the Most Holy Trinity is the seat of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Onitsha.
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Cyprian Michael Iwene Tansi (born in Aguleri, Anambra State, Nigeria in September 1903 – died in Leicester, England, January 24, 1964) was an Igbo Nigerian origin from IGBOEZUNU Aguleri Anambra East Local Government, Anambra State, Nigeria ordained a Roman Catholic priest of the Archdiocese of Onitsha, Nigeria on December 19, 1937.
Sentimentally, there are also Anioma people in Anambra State i.e. Onitsha, Ogbaru, Akwukwu Obosi, Ozobulu, Ogidi, Oraifite.
The Federal troops gained the upper hand, and forced the Biafrans back to the Niger, where they crossed the bridge back into the Biafran city of Onitsha, which lies directly across from Asaba.
His father, Omenka Odigwe Emeka Enwonwu, was a technician who worked with the Royal Niger Company; he was also a member of the Onitsha Council of Chiefs and a traditional sculptor of repute.
She completed her primary education at Onward Nursery and Primary School in Lagos State, and then proceeded to Federal Government Girls College in Onitsha, Anambra State for her secondary education.
Francis Obiorah Obikwelu, born 22 November 1978 in Onitsha, Nigeria, who has obtained a Portuguese citizenship since 2001, is a sprint athlete specializing in 100 metres and 200 metres.
He later spent many years in Africa, in such diverse places as Sierra Leone, Grand Bassa in Liberia, Conakry in French Guinea and later, Onitsha on the Niger River.
Wayas was born in Basang, Obudu, Cross River State on 21 May 1941 and attended the Dennis Memorial Grammar School, Onitsha.
At 3 A.M. on August 9, 1967 a mobilized division of Biafran soldiers under General Victor Banjo crossed the River Niger Bridge at Onitsha and entered Asaba.
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The invasion began when 7,000 Biafran soldiers led by General Victor Banjo crossed the River Niger Bridge into Asaba.
Born in Nawfia-Awka, a village near the Igbo city of Onitsha in Nigeria, Nwankwo attended University College in Ibadan, gaining a BA in 1962.
Historians have compared the significance of Nri, at its peak, to the religious cities of Rome or Mecca: it was the seat of a powerful and imperial state that influenced much of the territories inhabited by the Igbo of Awka and Onitsha to the east; the Efik, the Ibibio, and the Ijaw to the South; Nsukka and southern Igala to the north; and Asaba, and the Anioma to the west.
Igwe Umenyiora also built a modern town hall for the people which was blessed by the then Archbishop of Onitsha, His Grace, Most Rev. Francis Arinze)
In 2005, he got admitted to Dennis Memorial Grammar School, Onitsha where he did his Junior secondary and completed in Federal Government Colllage, Enugu.
Some claim that 'Onicha' is a contraction of Igbo and Edo words, and perhaps from the word 'Orisha'.
They later settled on the east bank of the river Niger after migrating back from Benin (or the present western Nigeria),