…Soludo marks 10,000 shops for demolitionCommercial activities resumed on Monday in Onitsha, the commercial nerve centre of Anambra State, as traders in the Onitsha Main Market and other markets opened their shops, with heavily armed security agents deployed to provide security. During the order, traders and other commercial centres usually locked up their stores in compliance, thereby paralysing the economic life of the zone, with the Onitsha Main Market said to have lost billions of naira. ALSO READ: Onitsha main market reopens amid tight securityIrked by the order, Governor Charles Soludo had last week shut down the Onitsha Main Market for one week, with a threat to extend the same measure to other markets where traders complied with the IPOB directive. The Chairman of the Onitsha Main Market, Chijioke Okpalaugo, denied rumours that some non-state actors had threatened him to shut down the market. Mrs Nwada Chinyere, a trader at the Emeka Ofor Plaza within the Onitsha Main Market, lauded the presence of the police, army and state-owned security outfits, Agunechemba and Udogachi.

Source: Nigerian Tribune February 02, 2026 20:51 UTC