cremedelacreme:
Is it a crime for these guys to at least renovate these houses? The state governments in SW states are trying their best in area of road construction but the citizens are just too poor to make their abode habitable. These pictures are an eyesore and I now understand why some of these guys living under these rusty roofs think and behave the way they do especially on Nairaland.

Jonjam269:
Obirodents lamentation thread. Who takes those who hide under their beds every Monday or those who believed Buhari was cloned serious! Losers

FreeStuffsNG:

What you see as old is the history of mankind just in case you don't know Ile-Ife the Source.

Go to Europe and United Kingdom to understand what the Yoruba are teaching you by preserving their history. Those houses have produced global icons and Nobel Laureate. Even the current MD of MTN Nigeria whose father is a medical doctor and current Oba in same Ile Ife LGA grew up in one of those houses yet today sits atop one of the greatest African companies.

Ile Ife is not your mate o or the mate of your whole state let alone your village. It's the size of some states in South East in land mass and population and it hosts the Great Ife, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife.

IamAtikulate:

Better to sit at home in a mansion in Mondays than work Monday to Sunday every week in a pig farm

Workch:

Odi egwu

IamAtikulate:

Better to sit at home in a mansion in Mondays than work Monday to Sunday every week in a pig farm

Jonjam269:
Obirodents lamentation thread. Who takes those who hide under their beds every Monday or those who believed Buhari was cloned serious! Losers

Jokerman:


So why can't the big men of Osun state renovate these environments, just like what the whites do, to make it pleasing to the eye?

They will make money and keep building edifices in Lasgidi, but won't remember to put something in their hometown...

See Davido for instance, omo Osun, does he have any edifice in his hometown?

FreeStuffsNG:

Smh. Have you been to the "whites" authentic historical enclaves?

Most of you should stop this your inferiority complex and project it on the "whites. Ile Ife is not the mate of your village or state. It's going to be in that pristine state to keep our history and well preserved knowledge you can not see as an outsider.

There are places designated for the vanity and fancy you crave but there are places that will be kept in their historical states. The Yoruba are not stupid enough to demolish places that are several centuries old of history, culture and knowledge.

How do you think that, out of several tribes the transatlantic slavery forced overseas, the Yoruba culture and religion is the only one that survived and still being practiced in those far flung lands till date? Why do you think those descendants of Yoruba in diaspora and the Americas travel yearly back to Ile Ife and Osun on spiritual pilgrimage? To see fake new buildings and watch destroyed history? No. They come because they know that they will connect to their rich history, roots and religion.

The Yoruba have built civilisation and more sophisticated to the whites for centuries yet preserved our history.

Below is Lagos and Ibadan like a century ago. The ancient city of Ibadan hosted Africa's first stadium, Tv station, west Africa's first skyscraper, Nigeria's 1st university even while people were still walking unclothed in Igboland o

FatherOfJesus:
everyone knows that if those guys had money to renovate their houses, they will.

All these ones you dey talk na nonsense

Abagworo:
Why can't these Ife residents rebuild these houses?

FreeStuffsNG:
You're ignorant and I can't cure your ignorance if you think my over a century old family house is in its pristine state because we can't demolish and build new buildings.

You just got civilised and that is why new buildings are symbols of wealth to you. Go to Ekiti, Abeokuta, Ilesha etc and watch a US-based Professor, ex-President, etc live in those houses, hang his tie and goes to farm and forest to hunt just like most Europeans and Americans do in their ancestral homelands.

FreeStuffsNG:
You're ignorant and I can't cure your ignorance if you think my over a century old family house is in its pristine state because we can't demolish and build new buildings.

You just got civilised and that is why new buildings are symbols of wealth to you. Go to Ekiti, Abeokuta, Ilesha etc and watch a US-based Professor, ex-President, etc live in those houses, hang his tie and goes to farm and forest to hunt just like most Europeans and Americans do in their ancestral homelands.

jamesversion:


Lolz, imagine your comment. Is there anyone on earth with the means that wouldn't love to live in posh houses? What you're seeing in that environment is a reflection of the economic capacity of the inhabitants of that town. If it didn't dey, it didn't dey.

Sometimes I wonder what would have become of some regions in Nigeria if Niger Delta oil money was used by/for only Niger deltans.

FreeStuffsNG:
You're ignorant and I can't cure your ignorance if you think my over a century old family house is in its pristine state because we can't demolish and build new buildings.

You just got civilised and that is why new buildings are symbols of wealth to you. Go to Ekiti, Abeokuta, Ilesha etc and watch a US-based Professor, ex-President, etc live in those houses, hang his tie and goes to farm and forest to hunt just like most Europeans and Americans do in their ancestral homelands.

FatherOfJesus:
What is it with these type of old buildings in southwest?

WeddingParol:


Those were the modern house when your people were still living under the leaf.

FreeStuffsNG:
You're ignorant and I can't cure your ignorance if you think my over a century old family house is in its pristine state because we can't demolish and build new buildings.

You just got civilised and that is why new buildings are symbols of wealth to you. Go to Ekiti, Abeokuta, Ilesha etc and watch a US-based Professor, ex-President, etc live in those houses, hang his tie and goes to farm and forest to hunt just like most Europeans and Americans do in their ancestral homelands.

FreeStuffsNG:
You're ignorant and I can't cure your ignorance if you think my over a century old family house is in its pristine state because we can't demolish and build new buildings.

You just got civilised and that is why new buildings are symbols of wealth to you. Go to Ekiti, Abeokuta, Ilesha etc and watch a US-based Professor, ex-President, etc live in those houses, hang his tie and goes to farm and forest to hunt just like most Europeans and Americans do in their ancestral homelands.

Quintessence44:
AS FAR AS I AM CONCERNED, ANY GOVERNOR THAT BUILDS A ROAD WITHOUT SIDEWALKS SHOULD BE EXECUTED BY FIRING SQUAD.

SPIT.

FreeStuffsNG:
You're ignorant and I can't cure your ignorance if you think my over a century old family house is in its pristine state because we can't demolish and build new buildings.

You just got civilised and that is why new buildings are symbols of wealth to you. Go to Ekiti, Abeokuta, Ilesha etc and watch a US-based Professor, ex-President, etc live in those houses, hang his tie and goes to farm and forest to hunt just like most Europeans and Americans do in their ancestral homelands.

IamAtikulate:

Better to sit at home in a mansion in Mondays than work Monday to Sunday every week in a pig farm

Yeah right, because everyone obeying the "sit at home" command (every Monday), lives in a mansion.