Aigbofa:

Ironsi happened to Nigeria. He made Nigeria a unitary state and effectively killed the healthy rivalry between the regions.
The groundnuts pyramids disappeared, cocoa production started to declined and the future of Nigeria given on a platter to incompetent despots for decades.

Eledan:

I missed this word...! Where have you been?

dokunbam:

mowo bata BATA

meaning i wear shoes bought from BATA

i could remember going with my DAD to Bata to buy Christmas shoe and school sandals

they are real leather
i mean hard real leather shoes

dangiwa09:

You mean Ironsi caused all the destruction and pillage in Nigeria in just 6 months . He must be a magician or you need to go study Nigeria's History at least from 1914

dangiwa09:

You mean Ironsi caused all the destruction and pillage in Nigeria in just 6 months . He must be a magician or you need to go study Nigeria's History at least from 1914

yunfazz:

Someone who is logical in thinking has what he know will make ppl to reminiscence abt how beautiful a city used to be...all you can say in ur daftness in "ur point"

There need to be auto delete for some ppl's daft comment on NL

django1: Too many people in ibadan these days. Wish we cld go back to 60's.


Thanks for the pics OP.

tomber:
Pele o. keep wishing we go back to the 60s whn some peopl (like A.Dangote) are making their cool billions

"Say not, Why were the former days better than these? For it is not from wisdom that you ask this". Ecclesiastes 7:10
U can b inspired but never sit down mornnin d paste forever. and if we blame ironse this much who takes d remaining blame.

wwwkaycom:
so. for you, 1963 to 2013 is 30years, abi, which pry school did you attend?

dangiwa09:

You mean Ironsi caused all the destruction and pillage in Nigeria in just 6 months . He must be a magician or you need to go study Nigeria's History at least from 1914

TheBookWorm: Ibadan's steady decline can be traced to Lagos success. The economic vacuum that is Lagos has sucked the life out of many cities in the South-West.

It is like the New York City factor. New York City is such a prominent city in the New York state, but other areas of New York like upstate New York have lost population and economic power.

django1:

Partly true, but the most important factor that mitigated against the growth of ibadan and still does is bad leadership.

Things have improved a bit since this new governor came on board but its still too early to say we are on the way back but I believe if he keeps doing what he's doing (and some more) we might just have our city back.

TheBookWorm: Ibadan's steady decline can be traced to Lagos success. The economic vacuum that is Lagos has sucked the life out of many cities in the South-West.

It is like the New York City factor. New York City is such a prominent city in the New York state, but other areas of New York like upstate New York have lost population and economic power.

The Liberty Stadium now renamed Obafemi Awolowo Stadium is a historic 25,000 seat football stadium based in the city of Ibadan, Nigeria. It was the first stadium to be built in Africa. Ibadan also boasts of the first radio and television stations in Africa. The first live broadcast was from Ibadan by Madam Anike Agbaje-Williams the first face on television in Africa.

adultebony: Wow! Nice to see these pictures. Thanks @OP. I was born (in the early seventies) and partly bred in Ibadan. It use to be a very beautiful cosmopolitan place with a very vibrant social life. I grew up around Cocacola Area of Ibadan, then we had the Leventis Store around the area, it was such a nice place to shop, there was Kingsway too, UI was BEAUTIFUL and inspiring, we all studied hard to get into UI, the Zoological Garden inside the University was stocked with well fed animals, so many folks from other African countries clutched the Polaroid Camera beckoning on would-be customers to come have a shot. Dugbe & Lebanon Street had a few skyscrapers (Cocoa House, Glass House or Femi Johnson, etc) beautiful places back then. It aches my heart when I go to Ibadan now and see how messed up the whole place look. I hope someday we'll have a visionary leader who will have the political will do reverse these steady retrogression we have found ourselves....

lygn19: Nyc city... How come in 30years it became nigeria's slum estate

ngozievergreen:

who knows?

Moreover, these are mostly pix of d univ

juman:

People of IBB generation "eat up" the country and destroyed everything.

django1:

Shut up! Dangote may be making millions but how many beggers did you see on those streets? Go to that same dugbe and queens cinema today and see how beggers line the streets.

ba7man: Are u ok The Op presents 6 pics on the first page, 2 are from the University, 4 are from the city.........What exactly is your problem with the SW??

ngozievergreen:

longest tym.
Rapu ndi ofe, cowardice ga egbu ha.
Ndi ugwu chupuru ha n'afia di na be ha, ha a noro ebe a na -eme so mkpotu

agbameta:










^^^^^^^ He's ibo, that's his problem with the SW.

TheBookWorm: We are here lamenting, but nothing remains static. Things can change for the better in Ibadan, and all other Nigerian cities that have lost it former glory.

We may weep when we see old pictures of Lagos, Ibadan, Port Harcourt and Enugu but change is constant.

TheBookWorm: We are here lamenting, but nothing remains static. Things can change for the better in Ibadan, and all other Nigerian cities that have lost it former glory.

We may weep when we see old pictures of Lagos, Ibadan, Port Harcourt and Enugu but change is constant.

BarryX: What captivated me most was the shorts fashion trend !me likey
One of the bitter truth about Nigeria hate it or leave it, is Nigerians were not ready for independence before it came .
And for Christ sakes: we too dey born for this country -- we're damn over-populated