CyberG:

What can of worms? Do you expect Ibadan, a developed city-state way back in the 1800's to be compared with Enugu or anywhere in Ibadan just discovered in the 1900's? I live in a city in the West in which they started building it 500 years ago (you will not believe it except you see it!) Here, there are big new buildings but there are buildings so old, they do not have any central ventilation system, why? Some of them were constructed in the 1920s and I am talking about a 4-Floor building! Now, anyone who compares the older buildings here with the newer ones built in the 1980's and after MUST be insane! Are you insane? If not, you would understand what those brown roofs in Ibadan mean!

Secondly, do you know that the city passed a law NOT to demolish the old buildings? You know the solution they found? Well, architects now redesigned the houses and rebuilt them on the inside without destroying the old-outside architecture in order to PRESERVE THE HISTORY of the people! Now, will you compare that to a new condo development built in 2013? Use your brain except you've never left Nigeria in your life you will have no clue! Think - don't you know the shiny buildings of today will be old relics in another 100 years? Well, that was how developed city-states like Ibadan were a hundred years ago before iboland or anything called ibos existed! And FYI, do not compare the entire iboland to Oyo State for the size of that one state is just about that of the entire iboland like someone pointed out!

You see your ignorance is appalling! So you travelled through Ibadan and it means you've seen the entire state! I bet you have never seen all of Enugu after years of living there but that single State is bigger than anything you can imagine! Have you been to Oluyole, Bodija, Ashi, Bashorun, Jericho, UI, etc to see development that Enugu only started trying to copy in the last few years? Those places have been built with grade A tarred roads since before I was born! Don't be stoopi.d!

django1: The way some peeps were hating on IB yesterday cos of shoprite ehn, you go fear oo.

Some ppl were asking why not PH or why not calabar instead of IB, same thing they said when KFC opened its first branch, "its going to close soon", "people only come to take pictures", now they've opened a better branch at bodija (a drive through).

Goods at shoprite are amazingly cheap, its a huge threat to local marketers, and a blessing to consumers.

IB is going places.

Freewilly: It must be a daunting task to keep that place clean, Ibadan people are not known for their cleanness.

dayokanu:

Ibadan compared to Enugu? Enugu wan die?

Abi no be the same Enugu ni

In 500yrs Enugu cant catch up with Ibadan

Ogbeche77: Report has it that customers who visited shoprite on it first day of opening in ibadan were over 102,000, but they recorded just N35,000 sale

Suprite ni ilu ibadan, Aku sopping ooo... Sopping atu wa lara ooo

Ola Johnson: The Igbo think that they are the only ones that travel to other parts of the country. That is why they make mockery of places outside the SE. Enugu falls shot of being referred to a capital when compared with Ibadan.

ketoprofen:

all of U have not provided any evidence to prove y ibadan shd be referred to as a capital, so forget it. am beginning to understand your stands, ibadan is probably your best thats y u cant stand the thing being under rated

CyberG:

Why are you people so STOOPID for goodness sake? First and foremost, I can tell you VERY CONFIDENTLY that EVERY Yoruba South Westerner is PROUD of their heritage, history and every aspect of their culture, race, etc. You being an ibo man got no clue at all about what you are pretending to speak about. Now, your second point is even far beyond STOOPID when you assert that a SW state is wasting time over Lagos! Are you so small and hare-brained that you don't know that states are created for administrative and government purposes? If the entire land mass of the SW were divided into 100 states for administrative purposes, EVERY last square cm will be defended to the death until ALL greedy soldiers (MOSTLY IBOS) are completely destroyed! Since you are too dense, I will give you and your lot some education:

During the ill-conceived Biafra War, Ojukwu had his sights on Lagos, a bonafide and 100% Yoruba land and heritage! He claimed to be fighting the northerners but a land grab charted the course of his army to Sokoto (the seat of the Caliphate) to pass through Lagos. What happened? At the borders of Ore, LOOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNGGGGG before he got anywhere near to Lagos, his ARMY was brutally crushed! Credit to the Nigerian Army from every other part of Nigeria but in that Army were soldiers from every Yoruba state, not counting Lagos and they defended it from the front until the last man of the aggressors were utterly destroyed! General of the Nigerian Army Benjamin Adekunle, Commander, 3 Marine Commando is from Ogbomosho, did you read the legends of the conquest of the biafran and ibo armies? How about General of the Nigerian Army, Olusegun Obasanjo from Owu in Ogun State, what did he do? He made sure that he paraded the left overs of the biafran rebellion as surrendered soldiers right before the world. Did he have to be from Lagos?

Oh, how about Premier of the Westerm Region, Aare Ona Kakanfo (The War General), Chief Obafemi Awolowo, from Ikenne in Ogun State? Do you know the stuff of legend Chief Awolowo orchestrated virtually plotting the strategies in concert with other military commanders so much so that ibos are still mad well over 40 years and possibly the next 4,000 years for the large scale defeat?? The Aare Ona Kakanfo is a title that goes back well over 700 years, to indicate for how long the Yorubas have been tactical and superior war machines. There are millions of people I possibly could never know who will defend every square cm of the Yoruba lands of their ancestors to the death until every invader is destroyed! By the same token, just as marauders were trying to enter through Ore, thousands of soldiers who are Lagosians were in the ranks of the armies who utterly smote biafra at Ore! The point is use your sense before you open your mouth to spew putrid nonsense!

Again to correct you, there is nothing of note in Enugu! I have been there myself! I lived in Iboland at a time. I am sure Ibadan are proud of those brown roofs which were already covering those houses before your grandfathers were found in iboland. This is the truth, and I am not being tribalistic but you leave me no choice than to tell you the naked truth if you can't figure it out. At the time they were building those houses, ibos lived in the naked forests, wearing no clothes or leaves tied around their waist to cover their private parts only. Up till today, them men still tie a wrapper around their waists like women. There is no question, every Yoruba in any part of South West Nigeria will more than happily be comforted that it doesn't matter whether he is 'officially' from Lagos or Ekiti, even when he is not there, his brothers as far as Ilorin or at the borders of Ondo State will defend their lands to the last man! This is something your people (ibos) have NEVER done since God created the earth! Think about it.

thelonestranger:

It is really amusing. The fact is that people don't know that an even BIGGER Shoprite is presently being constructed on Ring Road Ibadan where the old rubbish dump used to be. Laugh your life away on Nairaland . In Ibadan Shoprite is laughing to the bank(s)

ba7man: Ibadan has its good areas, it has its bad areas but it also has something that makes it an investors destination....A large population that has purchasing power. Keep laughing at the brown rusty roofs while the city keeps developing.

ketoprofen:

Enugu cant catch up with ibadan in poverty, i agree my brother. even in a million years. Good morning

Dotman01: apart from the population . . . . the hospitality of Ibadan people is second to none.

eaglechild:
What has all this got to do with the low quality crowd at suprait?

delpee: I remember the train ride to the chilled, seemingly snowy grotto to see father xmas in kingsway, Ibadan in the 70s. Then we had Kingsway, UTC and Leventis within walking distance from each one at dugbe. Seems shoprite is in that area near Cocoa house.
The stores then stocked virtually everything needed in a home including clothes (e.g. St michael ) and hardware.
The hot meatpie and chilled coke in kingsway was unbeatable. Apparently the forerunner of Mr Biggs!

ketoprofen:

My dear, help me ask them o. the funny aspect of all these is thst some of their own started yabbing ibadan, one guy like dat cyberG vented the frustration on igbo guys immediately, and am telling him to direct his anger back to the abeokuta peeps, he refused.

is it not under-exposure to the good tnz of life that will make sb think anoda envies him for sth he just got. its like telling Onitsha peeps they are envious of shoprite, do u know how many shopping malls/departmental stores there or is it cos this particular one has the name shoprite ? Garri dudes

thelonestranger:
Bros your name sounds like a drug for skin disease
Mugu plenty for Nairaland o. If Shoprite, an international company has 3 shops in AFFLUENT Lagos, have 1 shop in AFFLUENT Abuja , have 1 shop in AFFLUENT Enugu , and are opening [size=14pt]2 shops[/size] in "POVERTY RIDDEN" Ibadan , then they must be a foolish company indeed. Go figure.

thelonestranger:
Bros your name sounds like a drug for skin disease
Mugu plenty for Nairaland o. If Shoprite, an international company has 3 shops in AFFLUENT Lagos, have 1 shop in AFFLUENT Abuja , have 1 shop in AFFLUENT Enugu , and are opening [size=14pt]2 shops[/size] in "POVERTY RIDDEN" Ibadan , then they must be a foolish company indeed. Go figure.

Ogbeche77: Report has it that customers who visited shoprite on it first day of opening in ibadan were over 102,000, but they recorded just N35,000 sale

Suprite ni ilu ibadan, Aku sopping ooo... Sopping atu wa lara ooo

antartica: Do you loud mouths realize the indelible damage big multinational supermarkets to markets and food chains? If you guys know,you won't be celebrating their emergence. They decimate local businesses and polute food supplies.

CyberG:

There's no point even talking to people like you as counselled by a wise poster in the past few posts. No doubt you people are programmed to hate and this blinds every atom of common sense. Well, Ibadan is prepping up for more business (2nd Shoprite in construction) and I do not support or prefer foreign companies to make money off Nigerians but it is what is it now. A private business knows much better than Internet tribalists if it open 2 or 3 stores in an area while ignoring or investing much less in the local economy of another place. You can guys can knock yourself out on your permanent complaints but when the rubber meets the road, everyone knows who the historic loser is in Nigeria.

aycsharp: I am proud to come from Ibadan, yes Ibadan has over a million brown roofs kudos to ancient civilization from the Yorubas, when other tribes in the country were living in "channel 0" kind of houses. Show me a city in Nigeria without urban slum and it shows how naive you are, most people talking on nairaland have not even left their enclaves to see some other parts of the country, modernized places in Ibadan are more than the ancient places, I stand to be corrected any time. Having toured places like Enugu, Awka, Onitsha, Asaba and even that poor Abakaliki, comparing any of those to Ibadan is unreasonable and really stupid because Ibadan is safer, cheaper to live, more westernized, more industrialized, even now cleaner than those south eastern cities. And the big part of it is that as the south eastern cities are crawling in terms of development, Ibadan is running, Each time I visited Ibadan now, I was always happy because of the changes I saw. So stop comparing any south eastern city with my beloved Ibadan.