Facts about IBADAN

Ibadan is the third Largest city in Africa after Cairo
and Johannesburg.

Ibadan is the third most Populous city in Nigeria
after Kano and Lagos

Ibadan is the Home of Nigeria Army 2nd Division

Ibadan City alone has a population of 3,720,643
people (2006 census), with this more populous than States like, Enugu, Gombe, Osun, Cross-River, Sokoto, Ondo, Kebbi, Edo, Benue, Bayelsa, Abia,
Kwara, Adamawa, Ebonyi, Kogi, Nasarawa, Taraba,
Pleatue, Ekiti, Yobe and Zamfara (2006 census)

Ibadan has 11 recognised Local Government Area
with an Average of 338,462 people per L.G.A as against 150,000 people per L.G.A of Fed constitution recommendation, the Nigerian Constitution stipulate 14 L.G.A for provision to create a state

Ibadan North" L. G. A. is one of the first four most populated L.G.A in Nigeria with 856,988 people and
Oluyole 734,377 people (2006 census)

Ibadan has 5 metropolitan L.G.A namely Ibadan
North, Ibadan North-West, Ibadan North-East, Ibadan South-West and Ibadan South-East

Ibadan has 6 Urban L.G.A namely Egbeda, Oluyole, Ona-Ara, Lagelu, Akinyele and Iddo

Ibadan has its oldest L.G.A as Oluyole L.G.A and Lagelu L.G.A

Ibadan is the Capital of Western Colonial
Administration 1893 and also Western Region since
1939, Ibadan operates the most orderly and peaceful monarchy system anywhere in the whole universe.

Ibadan hosts the very first University in Nigeria and
the first and the best Zoological Garden nationwide (in the University of Ibadan campus).

Ibadan cover a total Area of 3,186 sq. km (1,195sq miles) close to the whole of Lagos State 3,348 sq.
km

Ibadan has 7 Federal Constituencies as against
constitution stipulation of 6 to create a state

Ibadan puts Oyo State as the 4th largest economy in Nigeria. Ibadan is Nigeria’s 3rd cheapest city to live.

Ibadan has a Federal Airport (Alakia), boarding
passengers to cities like Kano, Lagos, Abuja, Benin,Port Harcourt etc.

Ibadan has 4 Government Reservation Areas (GRA,
as we call them) – Iyaganku, Jericho, Onireke, and Agodi.

Ibadan hosted the first Housing Corporation in
Nigeria that built the first housing estate in Nigeria,
Bodija Housing Estate.

Ibadan has the oldest Surviving Newspaper in
Nigeria (Tribune Newspaper)

Ibadan hosts the first TV station in the whole of Africa 1959 as WRBC, later WNTV/WNBS and now NTA Ibadan

Ibadan has 7 Television stations (Galaxy as the first
private station in Nigeria 1996, NTA, AIT, MiTV,
because, Channels Ibadan and Silverbird Ibadan).

Ibadan has a whopping 14 Radio stations operating in the same city; namely Fresh FM, Splash FM, Inspiration, Premier FM, Oluyole FM, Lagelu FM, Star FM, Space FM, Diamond/UI FM, Naija FM, Radio Nigeria, Amuludun FM etc.

Ibadan hosts Mapo Hall, one of only 2 Town Halls in Africa of Greco-Roman architectural style.

Ibadan’s house-numbering, system for postal delivery using the cardinal points, N, S, E, W, SW,SE, NW, and NE is the only one of such postal codes in Africa, designed by the British.

Ibadan has the Bower Tower, designed by British Colonial Officer Taffy (also designed the Mapo Hall)
is the only structure of its kind in Nigeria and West
Africa, located on top of the city in the Agala Forest.

Ibadan hosted the first fruit canning factory in
Nigeria, Lafia Canning Company, established and
owned by the Western Nigeria Development Corporation, and supplied by the citrus and pineapple farm of Apoje, near Ijebu Igbo (in present day Ogun State).

Ibadan consists of several almost-independent, self-sustaining big communities:
• The City itself
• University of Ibadan campus
• The Ibadan Polytechnic campus.
• The University College Hospital (UCN) community.
• The Moor Plantation Community, including the
IAR&T campus.
• The IITA community
• CRIN community
• The Nigerian Railway compound and living quarters
• The Odogbo Barracks community of the Nigerian
Army
• The Lead City University campus
• The religious communities of Immanuel College and the Dominican Community.

Ibadan is the only city in Nigeria that has over 15
Federal Tertiary Institutions/Research Institutes,
namely:
1. University of Ibadan, formerly University College,
Ibadan,1948 (Nigeria’s Premier University).
2. Nigeria Institute for Social and Economic
Research, (NISER)
3. Institute for Agricultural Research and Training
(I.A.R &T) Moor Plantation
4. National Institute of Horticulture Research and
Training (NIHORT)
5. National Cereal Research Institute (NCRI) 1978
6. National Root Crop Research Institute (NRCRI)
7. Forestry Research Institute of Nigeria (FRIN)
8. University College Hospital (UCH) 1948, including School of Nursing.
9. Federal School of Statistics 10. Federal School of Hygiene
11. Federal Co-operative College
12. Federal College of Agriculture,1921
13. Federal College of Animal Health and Production Technology
14. Federal College of Forestry .
15. International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, IITA (an international/global Institute)
16. Cocoa Research Institute of Nigeria (CRIN)1976
17. National Institute of Science Laboratory
Technology (NISCLT)
18. Ibadan Polytechnic (owned by Oyo State) but started as the National College of Science and
Technology

Ibadan has several private higher institutions of learning such as:
• Immanuel College of Theology
• Lead City University • Ibadan City Polytechnic
• BOLMOL Polytechnic
• Dominican University
• Tower Polytechnic
• All-Ibadan College of Education

• Mufu Lanihun College of Education
* Ibadan has the Largest Supermarket in Africa (Shoprite Ibadan Ring-Road branch).

Ibadan has the first stadium and International
Stadium in Nigeria (1945) the Liberty Stadium (now
Obafemi Awolowo Stadium) with 35,846 capacity.

Ibadan is the home of Book Publishers, having over major 20 printing companies i.e. Oxford University Press, Ibadan University Press, Heinemann, Evans,
Spectrum, Bounty, Odua Press, Macmillan etc.

Ibadan hosts the Regional Headquarters of Central
Bank Of Nigeria, Dugbe, under which states like
Ondo,Delta, Ogun, Kogi,Edo Ekiti, Ilorin, and Oyo operate.

Ibadan to Oyo is the first motorable road in Nigeria
1905 built by Sir Percy Girouard.

The busiest road in Nigeria after Lagos-Abeokuta
expressway is Lagos-Ibadan followed by Abuja-
Kaduna express road.

An Ibadan man, Mr Taiwo Akinkumi designed Nigeria Nation Flag (1959).

Ibadan has the first tallest building in Africa, "Cocoa
House" 1952.

Ibadan hosts the first set of Secondary schools in
Nigeria.

• St. Anne's School, Molete 1868,

• Ibadan Grammar School, Molete, 1913,

• Ibadan Boys High School, 1938,

• Government College, Apata, Ibadan 1927,

• Queen School, Apata, Ibadan 1956,

• St Patrick Grammar School 1962, • Ibadan City Academy, Eleta, 1946,

• Wesley College, Elekuro, (a teacher training college)1905,

• St. Theresa’s Girl School, Oke-Ado, 1932,

• Yejide Girls Grammar School, Kudeti, 1956,

• Loyola College, Agodi,1954, • Lagelu Grammar School, Agugu,1958

• Igbo Elerin Grammar School, via Ibadan, 1957.

Ibadan is the city with the highest number of
Professors in the whole of Africa.

Ibadan is the fastest growing city in Nigeria (NBS).

Gossip House

What a wonderful histroy for the ancient city of Ibadan. Respect! Letmauk Barracks was home back then.From Captain Bowen's Tower, Premier Hotel, Cultural Centre or Mapo Hall, the wide view of the city's scenery is really breathtaking.

It is also a cosmopolitan city. Use to admire Cocoa House while thinking it was a rocket ready to be launched back then as a kid. Lolz

Ibadan is the city with the highest number of
Professors in the whole of Africa.

Use to think Ondo/Osun State blazed the trail in this history? Perhaps I may be wrong.

God bless ibadan and Abeokuta

Ibadan is the new ragos of Igbos where they are all running to now.. soon Ibadan will turn to a shadow of itself and become filled with slums.

Cool

All these, yet no airport

flokii:
Ibadan is the new ragos of Igbos where they are all running to now.. soon Ibadan will turn to a shadow of itself and become filled with slums.

ibadan has the highest number of poor people in africa(proof is the ibadan brown roof and mud houses)

I so much love Ibadan... Calm , serene and cheap.... Yes fvcking cheap

Oghene1st:
All these, yet no airport

Ibadan has an Airport in Alakia and an Airforce Airstrip at akobo

Ibadan Airport has being operational since 1982 that's long before Delta State people knew what a plane looks like


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Ibadanpikin:
ibadan has the highest number of poor people in africa(proof is the ibadan brown roof and mud houses)

Yet your people still troop into Ibadan daily in their millions as if there is war going on in alaigbo.. why not stay back and enjoy the aluminum roofing sheets and all the "development" in the East? you lots deceive noone but yourselves

It’s promising, that is, Ibadan...but today it is far from a world class city.

Ibadanpikin:
Igbos don't troop to poor skull miners den,full of rusty and brown roofs due to poverty.The only move to lagos no man's land.

There are no Indigenous igbos in Western Nigeria just like there are no indigenous fulanis in any part of Yorubaland.. We'll continue to echo this for the whole world to hear.

Ibadan is the third Largest city in Africa after Cairo

This because of their warrior spirit and prowess, ibadan people I hail o

Ibadanpikin:
Igbos don't troop to poor skull miners den,full of rusty and brown roofs due to poverty.The only move to lagos no man's land.

Why are u using ibadanpikin are you ashamed of your hOSUdious heritage?

Lagos is no man's land abi, your time dey come all this okoro wey never leave their padlocked online country sef inside one Imo village dey shout no man's land

flokii:


There are no Indigenous igbos in Western Nigeria just like there are no indigenous fulanis in any part of Yorubaland.. We'll continue to echo this for the whole world to hear.

Lagos belongs to Igbos.we have buy the whole lands in lagos,thereby rendering yorubas as our slaves.Ask your fathers and mothers what happened to them at ladipo.

Stop quoting ur ewedu induced lagos-ibadan express newspaper. According to DEMOGRAPHIAL, International report, Onitsha is the second largest city in Nigeria, both population and landmass, second most built up, Onitsha city has grown into a modern day city covering over five LGA in Anambra state, making it the second biggest city in Nigeria and top ten in Africa, this are 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2021 report respectively, not your fraudulent 2006 census concocted by the Nigerian government


Another part you skipped is that Ibadan is the largest slum in Nigeria, according to UN over 70% of Ibadan is brownroof slum, covered with houses of 80s

SlyDev:


This because of their warrior spirit and prowess, ibadan people I hail o

brainwashed skull miner

Ibadanpikin:
Lagos belongs to Igbos.we have buy the whole lands in lagos,thereby rendering yorubas as our slaves.Ask your fathers and mothers what happened to them at ladipo.

You be pikin.. what do you know about ladipo?
You claim you've turned Yorubas to slave but your people are the ones complaining that Yoruba no longer rent houses out to them. I don't have your time okay? your forefathers like Azikiwe and Ojukwu already failed in their quest to take over Yorubaland, so you're inconsequential. na koboko we go use reset una brain and you'll eventually pack your things and go.

Ibadanpikin:
ibadan has the highest number of poor people in africa(proof is the ibadan brown roof and mud houses)

definitely you have not been to abakaliki and enugu
the rate of poverty there need god innervation.
brown roof in Enugu alone no be small

Ibadanpikin:
Lagos belongs to Igbos.we have buy the whole lands in lagos,thereby rendering yorubas as our slaves.Ask your fathers and mothers what happened to them at ladipo.

lmoa you wish?alaigbo will continue to be country side.
now I confirm Lagos is your heaven.alaigbo will continue to be poverty capital and most underdeveloped region in Nigeria

flokii:


You be pikin.. what do you know about ladipo?
You claim you've turned Yorubas to slave but your people are the ones complaining that Yoruba no longer rent houses out to them. I don't have your time okay? your forefathers like Azikiwe and Ojukwu already failed in their quest to take over Yorubaland, so you're inconsequential. na koboko we go use reset una brain and you'll eventually pack your things and go.

Koboko what?in Babangida's words when a yoruba man beats drum of war,he will rather return back to sleep because yorubas are cowards that can't kill an ant.

Shaolin77:
brainwashed skull miner

Bring the best of your soldiers and compare it with ibadan, ibadan no be by mouth weak okoroman

Billingslord:

definitely you have not been to abakaliki and enugu
the rate of poverty there need god innervation.
brown roof in Enugu alone no be small

No water in Enugu as we speak

Billingslord:

definitely you have not been to abakaliki and enugu
the rate of poverty there need god innervation.
brown roof in Enugu alone no be small

Ogun,Osun,Ondo,Oyo and Ekiti has the highest number of brown roofs and slums in Africa,due to poverty.

I love IB.

My favorite city in Nigeria , Calabar.. kaduna.

SlyDev:


Bring the best of your soldiers and compare it with ibadan, ibadan no be by mouth weak okoroman

can a yoruba man kill an ant.COWARDS

I’m proud of my city

Ibadan ni mi mi o le hide e

Op, point of correction Ibadan has over 23 radio stations jams fm , inspiration fm r2fm lead radio and so on

And also houses the first stadium in Africa
I also think Lagos Ibadan express way is the busiest expressway in Nigeria

Nowhere u Dey go from Lagos u no go pass that route