We should live Yoruba people and their ancient brown roof and face our modern and ugly cities. Imagine Onitsha ranks as the dirtiest city in the world

Onitsha, Anambra

9jakool:

Nigerians like to live under a fantasy but never want to come to terms with reality. Tell me a region of Nigeria that does not have brown roofs. When the Europeans visited Yorubaland, they noted the high rate of urbanism among them. For example, Ibadan at one point in time was the largest city in Nigeria and the largest in all of Subsaharan Africa. Till today, Yorubaland is one the most urbanized part of Nigeria. 40% of Nigerian cities with 100,000 people are found in the region.

It's good that you said almost every successful Igbo build a mansion. However, the truth remains that most Nigerians are poor, whether Igbo or Yoruba or whatever and cannot afford to build a mansion in their village. Most Nigerians live under inadequate infrastructure. Your sweeping generalization that many Yoruba don't build modern houses in their hometowns is false. Yoruba towns and cities embraced tin roofs and in the past, the houses look fairly decent, compare to now.

Brown roofs in my opinion is misplaced priority. It doesn't matter if you build a 4 storey mansion in a village, you are not living life to the fullest if you are surrounded by open gutters, pollution filth and litter, have to fill your generator to power your house, and drive your car on bad roads full of potholes.
What's more important than replacing brown roofs is to clean the streets and upgrade public infrastructure.

bros, this your wailing is a consolation, urbanization simply implies houses clustering together in a nucleated settlement, as against igboland with dispersed settlement, yorubaland is highly urbanized, but urbanization has nothing to do with better standard of living. zinc takes less than 30 years to rust, so your excuse about age is untenable, secondly, when zinc rusts, the right thing is to change to aluminum, when mud house becomes shaky, you demolish and built decent block house, if you can't do any of these, it is lack of wherewithal and not those flimsy excuses

Eastwalk:
We should live Yoruba people and their ancient brown roof and face our modern and ugly cities. Imagine Onitsha ranks as the dirtiest city in the world

Onitsha, Anambra

Lol, we can see decent appartments lined up here, the first pic is market, nobody live there

Southwest nigeria,

We Igbos need to stop this hypocrisy. Our land is gradually eaten up by running water due to lack of gutters and drainage and you posting brown roof with good drainage than our high brow

Ala igbo

MXrep:

Lol, we can see decent appartments lined up here, the first pic is market, nobody live there

Kikikiki.....them don start to dey explain...you are so right.........the next one nko.....na baby factory....nobody lives there too

See our neighborhood in


ANAMBRA

MXrep:
ibadan

Your first picture is Abeokuta, you can obviously see the entrance to Olumo rock. In your sad attempt to taint Yorubaland, you couldn't even use the right picture. You can keep showing pictures of brown roofs of the historic centers of Yoruba cities, but failed to show the development that are taking place at the same time. I can keep on showing Makoko forever and call it Lagos, but that's never going to change the underlying fact. You see brown roofs, but what I see is that over a century ago, when many Nigerians are living under thatched roof, people in cities like Abeokuta and Ibadan could afford top live in multi-storey houses.

ANAMBRA too

We Igbos are industrious and we built alot if only our government are like south west governors, no infrastructure in the east what we have is beautiful residential built by our brothers who are in Lagos or Ibadan.

A school in Onitsha

A school in Ibadan

A school in Akure

Eastwalk:
ANAMBRA too

thank for showing 2012 pic
meanwhile this ibadan 2017

[quote author=arinze2015 post=56279731] thank for showing 2012 pic
meanwhile this ibadan 2017

[quote author=arinze2015 post=56279792]more of yorba land

[quote author=arinze2015 post=56279822][/quote]ib city

OP don't take Nairaland too seriously as so many guys here are clowns toying with people's feelings. Most Nigerians know Ibadan and the fact that the main old city is full of rusty roofed Houses and the newer parts are as beautiful as a any of the modern cities in Nigeria with even better facilities. It's all politics and calculated taunting. Every city has rusty roofs in some parts but the only difference is that Ibadan is a megacity and hence has more of everything.

MXrep:

bros, this your wailing is a consolation, urbanization simply implies houses clustering together in a nucleated settlement, as against igboland with dispersed settlement, yorubaland is highly urbanized, but urbanization has nothing to do with better standard of living. zinc takes less than 30 years to rust, so your excuse about age is untenable, secondly, when zinc rusts, the right thing is to change to aluminum, when mud house becomes shaky, you demolish and built decent block house, if you can't do any of these, it is lack of wherewithal and not those flimsy excuses

No, I'm not looking for any consolation. I'm telling you reality on the ground, you are giving me cosmetic solutions.
Most of the houses are older than that. I've posted the picture of Ibadan in the 1960s showing the same style of houses. Secondly, it's tin, not zinc that were used. Nigeria used to produce high amount of tin during the colonial times. Zinc actually is low in corrosion and takes longer than that to rust. Because of the easy access to tin, roofing sheets were made out of tin. Most people don't build houses out of tin anymore and global tin production has dropped dramatically. If a roof does what is supposed to do which is provide shelter, then there is no need to torn it down especially if the people occupying the space are poor. If the average Nigerian standard of living improves greatly, then we can start talking about roofs. They are not a priority right now, upgrading public infrastructure and raising the standard of living should be the focus.

Abagworo:
OP don't take Nairaland too seriously as so many guys here are clowns toying with people's feelings. Most Nigerians know Ibadan and the fact that the main old city is full of rusty roofed Houses and the newer parts are as beautiful as a any of the modern cities in Nigeria with even better facilities. It's all politics and calculated taunting. Every city has rusty roofs in some parts but the only difference is that Ibadan is a megacity and hence has more of everything.

inaemenkogheri too much have you been to ibadan be4 forget all those their online pic 90% of ibadan is brown roof okay see this pics

9jakool:

No, I'm not looking for any consolation. I'm telling you reality on the ground, you are giving me cosmetic solutions.
Most of the houses are older than that. I've posted the picture of Ibadan in the 1960s showing the same style of houses. Secondly, it's tin, not zinc that were used. Nigeria used to produce high amount of tin during the colonial times. Zinc actually is low in corrosion and takes longer than that to rust. Because of the easy access to tin, roofing sheets were made out of tin. Most people don't build houses out of tin anymore and global tin production has dropped dramatically. If a roof does what is supposed to do which is provide shelter, then there is no need to torn it down especially if the people occupying the space are poor. If the average Nigerian standard of living improves greatly, then we can start talking about roofs. They are not a priority right now, upgrading public infrastructure and raising the standard of living should be the focus.

compare to this ones

more of ibadan

arinze2015:
compare to this ones

Despite that Owerri is one of the main city in Igbo land, check the non sense you are posting. Now this is Ibadan a city close to Lagos that is supposed to suck all it potential yet the city is still triving. We need to stop this hypocrisy and build our land


Ibadan

ib city

Eastwalk:
Despite that Owerri is one of the main city in Igbo land, check the non sense you are posting. Now this is Ibadan a city close to Lagos that is supposed to suck all it potential yet the city is still triving. We need to stop this hypocrisy and build our land


Ibadan

all i want is BROWN ROOF PICS OF OWERRI OR E MI ONI GBA FUN ENYI OMO RADARADA YIEN

arinze2015:
all i want is BROWN ROOF PICS OF OWERRI OR E MI ONI GBA FUN ENYI OMO RADARADA YIEN

Whats his he saying, let me come and be going

Eastwalk:
Despite that Owerri is one of the main city in Igbo land, check the non sense you are posting. Now this is Ibadan a city close to Lagos that is supposed to suck all it potential yet the city is still triving. We need to stop this hypocrisy and build our land


Ibadan

IBADAN MESI OGO ILE OLUYOLE ILE BABA NWON GBADEGESIN IBADAN MOJA MOJA KOFI KOARAILE LOGBON

arinze2015:
compare to this ones

Not impressed
Estates are all over Nigeria

9jakool:


Not impressed
Estates are all over Nigeria

actualy you are not the one i wanted to qoute rather i wanted to qoute abagworo that is defending ibadan

Eastwalk:
Despite that Owerri is one of the main city in Igbo land, check the non sense you are posting. Now this is Ibadan a city close to Lagos that is supposed to suck all it potential yet the city is still triving. We need to stop this hypocrisy and build our land


Ibadan

why always edited pictures,

Allann:



Ibadan, as is the case with most yoruba towns, is reputed for sitting on seven hills. The undulating landscape make the corrugated brown roofs so conspicuous. Save that, there is no ancient town in Nigeria that does not have it's fair share of brown roofs, except for those living in caves as at the time those brown roof buildings were being erected.

Another consolation line, you Yorubas should be ashamed for being reputed as the brown roof republic.
I was born and bred in Lagos, visited all states in the SW, visited virtually all the main towns and cities, speak Yoruba fluently and can boldly tell you that all towns and cities in the SW are same save for Lagos(Oba said it's not Yoruba anyway).
You guys should leave Lagos for a minute and go change those roofs.
That the yorubas had a head in education And western lifestyle doesn't translate to them leading in that department today, Ndigbo ti take over.

Yyeske:
Another consolation line, you Yorubas should be ashamed for being reputed as the brown roof republic.
I was born and bred in Lagos, visited all states in the SW, visited virtually all the main towns and cities, speak Yoruba fluently and can boldly tell you that all towns and cities in the SW are same save for Lagos(Oba said it's not Yoruba anyway).
You guys should leave Lagos for a minute and go change those roofs.
That the yorubas had a head in education And western lifestyle doesn't translate to them leading in that department today, Ndigbo ti take over.

eh yaa another hypocrite spotted. If your region is all mansion and nice, then why come live in another region. Thank you for your analysis of the SW but Yoruba are not ashamed. You are here saying that Yorubas should leave Lagos and go to their brown roof republic, meanwhile your family migrated to the SW from a region suffering from it's own fair share of environmental issues. The SE is the most polluted part of Nigeria according to the World Health Organization and not to mention it's overpopulation and erosion problems. Next time you speak from your mouth reeking of hypocrisy, make sure your non-brown roofed region is free of pollution and erosion first. Going after brown roofs is misplaced priority. Brown roofs only look "unpleasing" meanwhile pollution causes health issues and kills.

As for that insincere side comment about Lagos, you should know as a Lagos born and bred, Lagos has over 50 Yoruba kings and Akiolu is just the king of Isale Eko. Many of his words should never be taken seriously. He's the same king that said people like you should be thrown into lagoon. Today he's your enemy, tomorrow he's your friend. Make up your mind hypocrite. You ungrateful sons from the land of ajeji exploit the secular and accommodating nature of Yorubas. Centuries ago before colonization or a country like Nigeria, you people were unknown to Yorubas. Lagos is under the domains of Awori in Lagos proper, Remo in Ikorodu, and Ijebu in Lekki and Epe. It sickening to see people like you live among the same people whose interests you pray against everyday. When the time comes, awon omo onile would claim what's rightfully theirs.

9jakool:

eh yaa another hypocrite spotted. If your region is all mansion and nice, then why come live in another region. Thank you for your analysis of the SW but Yoruba are not ashamed. You are here saying that Yorubas should leave Lagos and go to their brown roof republic, meanwhile your family migrated to the SW from a region suffering from it's own fair share of environmental issues. The SE is the most polluted part of Nigeria according to the World Health Organization and not to mention it's overpopulation and erosion problems. Next time you speak from your mouth reeking of hypocrisy, make sure your non-brown roofed region is free of pollution and erosion first. Going after brown roofs is misplaced priority. Brown roofs only look "unpleasing" meanwhile pollution causes health issues and kills.

As for that insincere side comment about Lagos, you should know as a Lagos born and bred, Lagos has over 50 Yoruba kings and Akiolu is just the king of Isale Eko. Many of his words should never be taken seriously. He's the same king that said people like you should be thrown into lagoon. Tomorrow he's your enemy, today he's your friend. Make up your mind hypocrite. You ungrateful sons from the land of ajeji exploit the secular and accommodating nature of Yorubas. Centuries ago before colonization or a country like Nigeria, you people were unknown to Yorubas. Lagos is under the domains of Awori in Lagos proper, Remo in Ikorodu, and Ijebu in Lekki and Epe. It sickening to see people like you live among the same people whose interests you pray against everyday. When the time comes, awon omo onile would claim what's rightfully theirs.

Iboes are truly hypocrite. Today they cry marginalization, the next day they claim there land is Dubai. SW is rubbish and they cant stop trooping to same place, something must be wrong with the brain of an average Iboe man. Confused people

9jakool:

eh yaa another hypocrite spotted. If your region is all mansion and nice, then why come live in another region. Thank you for your analysis of the SW but Yoruba are not ashamed. You are here saying that Yorubas should leave Lagos and go to their brown roof republic, meanwhile your family migrated to the SW from a region suffering from it's own fair share of environmental issues. The SE is the most polluted part of Nigeria according to the World Health Organization and not to mention it's overpopulation and erosion problems. Next time you speak from your mouth reeking of hypocrisy, make sure your non-brown roofed region is free of pollution and erosion first. Going after brown roofs is misplaced priority. Brown roofs only look "unpleasing" meanwhile pollution causes health issues and kills.

As for that insincere side comment about Lagos, you should know as a Lagos born and bred, Lagos has over 50 Yoruba kings and Akiolu is just the king of Isale Eko. Many of his words should never be taken seriously. He's the same king that said people like you should be thrown into lagoon. Today he's your enemy, tomorrow he's your friend. Make up your mind hypocrite. You ungrateful sons from the land of ajeji exploit the secular and accommodating nature of Yorubas. Centuries ago before colonization or a country like Nigeria, you people were unknown to Yorubas. Lagos is under the domains of Awori in Lagos proper, Remo in Ikorodu, and Ijebu in Lekki and Epe. It sickening to see people like you live among the same people whose interests you Pray against everyday. When the time comes, awon omo onile would claim what's rightfully theirs.

Accomodating my black a.ss as if the accommodation was for free .


Oba Akiolu remains the paramount Oba in Lagos.

I guess the Americans, Brits, Chinese etc are all in Nigeria because Naija is the El dorado. We see opportunities anywhere and we grab it. No fault of ours

Go clean up the brown roofs or better still Change it.

Little wonder why you all claim to be Lagosians when we know the real indigenous Lagosians aren't up to 5% of the Yoruba population there.
The Oba has spoken anyway so your opinion isn't necessary

Air pollution in Third World country around the world mostly denotes rapid and unchecked industrialization as seen in China, India etc, Onitsha on that list shows how strong the economy is though the government needs to regulate

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