Asaba

Asaba is a city strategically located on a hill at the western edge of the Niger River, overlooking its sister metropolis, Onitsha, throughout the Niger BridgeIt is the capital of Delta State Nigeria. A speedy developing urban area, Asaba had a populace of 149,603 as on the 2006 census, and a metropolitan population of over 1/2 a million people. The city of Asaba became once the colonial capital of the Southern Nigeria Protectorate. It turned into based in 1884. Between 1886 and 1900, it hosted the Royal Niger Company, which the British authorities installation to stimulate exchange and the exportation of goods to England.

That organization has grown today into UAC Nigeria PLC. Scottish explorer William B. Balkie, while signing a exchange treaty with Igbo leader Ezebogo in Asaba on August 30, 1885, remarked "After our salutations, I pointed out friendship, of exchange, and of education, and specially enlarged upon the evils of war, and the blessings of peace, all of which was properly acquired. Owing to Asaba's influential history and geography, and cutting-edge strategic political and financial affect in Nigeria, Asaba is typically called the local capital of the Anioma location. The clamour for creation of Anioma state has been occurring for many years.