How second hand cloths from Europe got it name "okrika cloth"

 

okrika cloth

It started in the early 1950s, when the Okrika Port was the only port where Used European clothes could be brought in and sold all over Nigeria.

Due to the high cost of brand new clothes, these second hand clothes from European countries come into Nigeria via the Okrika port became widely popular and accepted.

Today whenever you hear of Okrika, some remembers the widely successful second-hand business cloths that Thrift in the in Okrika town long ago.

Okrika is a local government area in Rivers State with a rich cultural heritage and notable people like the former Governor of Rivers State Rufus Ada George, Senator George Sekibo who represent Rivers East senatorial district in the Nigeria senate and host of others.

It is an island with lots of sea food.