forgiveness:


you see again! Why not Lagos, Abuja, P/H and .....

bros, where did you get that aerial view of the bridge from?

The aerial view pic was gotten from a thread dedicated to Ibadan on the skyscrapercity forum.

@vicadex07: Till today, no building in the entire SE is as tall as Cocoa house at Ibadan, which was built in the '60s.

vicadex07:


Over 2 million igbos living there are the ones that are going to die. They are the ones dragging out the progress of ibadan because pre colonial and pre independence era before the influx of the Igbos, Ibadan was the largest and most developed city in Nigeria.

Go figure

See the crowd of their kinsmen celebrating igbo day on in:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGDwyvFSmCk

forgiveness:


It seems there are four kfc outlets in Ibadan, meaning badan host highest numbers of kfc in Nigeria after Lagos. Why?

Ibadan has more shoprite malls than other cities apart fron Lagos and Abuja in Nigeria? Why?.

Ibadan has more highrise( multiple stories between 33 - 100 Meters) than any cities in Nigeria apart from lagos and Abuja. Why?

Ibadan is one of the only cities that has a planned CBD in Nigeria after Lagos and Abuja. Why?


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Besides those things you highlighted, Smile 4g, an igbo managed ISP (it's actually owned by South Africans) launched their services at Ibadan, not even Lagos o. Why? Why not the SE? Even their own people know the importance and place of the city. Na bad-belle go kill them.

@InyinyaAgbaOku: You only see this style of ultra-modern buildings in the SW -- all these buildings are located in the same SW that has the brown roofs::

@InyinyaAgbaOku: You only see this style of ultra-modern buildings in the SW - all these buildings are located in the same SW that has the brown roofs::

InyinyaAgbaOku:

how can u say you have top class estates larger than others ? you don't travel . go to the east.
We are not just talking estates, just private houses.
By percentages within a region, the east has more modern houses more than any other zone.
Both village and city

Bro, you are the ignorant one coz you have no idea what you are talking about. How far have you travelled within Nigeria or even the SW to arrive at that judgement? Show me an estate in the entire SE that can match these ones at Citiview estates at Arepo in Ogun state? These are the sort of cutting-edge ultra-modern estates that you only find the SW (in Lagos and Ogun, and the same company is already developing similar structures at Ibadan).

The proposed Four Points Sheraton hotel (the third of the FourPoints franchise in Nigeria, the other two are located in Lagos and Akwa-Ibom) is located at Mokola Hill overlooking the capital city. It will provide excellent facilities for business conference and luxury accommodation for the guests.

Name: Four Points by Sheraton Ibadan
City: Ibadan
Use: Hospitality
Rooms: 150 rm
Floors: 5F
Status: Approved (Opening January 1, 2016)
Interior Designers: Areen Hospitality

Areen Hospitality to design interiors of Four Points by Sheraton Ibadan

London-based design practice Areen Hospitality has been appointed to undertake the interior design for the Four Points by Sheraton hotel in Ibadan, Nigeria.

The Four Points by Sheraton will be the city’s first internationally branded hotel. Working closely with Lagos-based DAA Architects, Areen’s design will create a contemporary business and leisure accommodation style that supports the growing aspirations of the area.

The 150-key property will feature a business and conference centre, alongside restaurants and bars, plus leisure amenities which include a luxury health club and pool.

Dipo Adebo, managing director of DAA Architects adds, "The synergy already established with Areen, coupled with Africa's buoyant hospitality market, creates a solid working platform."

The project represents Areen Hospitality's second venture into the West African sector, building on their current work on the Hilton Freetown Cape Sierra in Sierra Leone, which is due to open in 2015.

.ibadan

IB

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chuna1985:





Lmfao, wen will s waste people filled with constant cowardice stop writing n editing articles on Wikipedia n showing dose shit to us.

Gosh, Only the Aba women riot sent all d proof the white men needed to feel the igbo bravery. s waste were docile slaves who remain cowards not only till d white men left, but up till September 2015.

Since you refuse to accept the white man's impression and assessment of your empty-barrel race, isn't it ironic that your poster-boy for courage and most revered hero of Ndigbo race, Ojukwu, is also the greatest coward in the history of warfare . He had to flee to the Ivory Coast , leaving his kinsmen to the mercy of the Nigerian army during the biafra war. .

chuna1985:




onitsha people r Bini settlers, d Bini people didn't conquer dem. Everyone knew where we were, But no one dared advance towards us. Ask d colonial masters n their Anthropologists, they know better.


I heard from a Yoruba man that s waste wrote a letter to great Britain, inviting dem to colonize dem, mere cowards.

Hehehehe. You can keep repeating that tired line to yourself if it helps you sleep at night. Harold Smith, a colonial officer of the British Government sent to rig Nigeria’s pre-independence elections, was pretty clear on his impression of who was the coward and stooge between both Yorubas and Igbos in his autobiography:

“But the British were not treated as gods by the Yoruba. In my experience, the Yoruba regarded themselves as superior to the British and one only had to read a book written by Awolowo, the Western leader, to know why. The Yoruba were often highly intelligent and they taunted the British with sending inferior people to Nigeria. The Igbo would be humble and avert his eyes in the presence of a European. The Yoruba child would look at an important European and shout, ‘Hello, white man,’ as if he were a freak.”


“The thrust of the British Government’s policy was against the Action Group led by Chief Awolowo, which ruled in the Western Region. Not only was the British Government working hand in glove with the North, which was a puppet state favoured and controlled by the British administration, but it was colluding through Okotie-Eboh with Dr. Azikiwe – Zik – the leader of the largely Igbo NCNC, which ruled in the East. We tricked Azikiwe into accepting to be president having known that Balewa will be the main man with power. Awolowo has to go to jail to cripple his genius plans for a greater Nigeria.”

Yujin:

The departure of the Oyos from katunga was not out of choice but from force and it was very recent. The end product is the formation of the disorganized Ibadan. Illorin remains a fulani territory(I'm not proud of it) and there's nothing you can do about it. The Yorubas there tried to challenge it during obj's era but failed when the new oba they installed died mysteriously. You can verify it through Google. And it was the fulanis that sacked old oyo not the small nupe.

ILORIN IS NOT ANY FULANI TERRITORY! I repeat that today the real POWER belongs to the people of ilorin -- this isn't pre-colonial times when the Emirs and Sultans held sway [the people can request that their traditional ruler be dethroned and have their way if they so desire]. And if today the ilorins are serious about no longer wanting the Emirate, the Emirate will be gone. The elected representatives of the people, including the Governors, have the real POWER, and not any useless traditional ruler -- even Awolowo dethroned the current Alaafin of Oyo's father (Alaafin Adeyemi II) in the 50s and nothing happend, Abacha dethroned and banished then Sultan of Sokoto, Dasuki and nothing happened, Kwankwanso single-handedly decided who emerged the current Emir of Kano and nothing happened. Ilorin is a fulani territory my a$$.

@huangcheng: If we should begin to compare the magnitude of erosion in both regions na Una go tire coz Google has enough pictures brekete to give you all the crown. Instead of you to caution and find better work for your jobless kinsman here acting a fool you are here egging him on.

Yujin:

why you guys dwell in deceit is what I find difficult to understand. The original oyo capital called oyo ile was destroyed never to be recovered again. Illorin was taken never to be recovered again and you are blabbing. The fulani moved on to attack Ibadan but all yoruba army gathered to fight just a band of fulani warriors and you are rejoicing. Yes the fulanis were pushed back at oshogbo and the recamped at Illorin planning a massive attack on your useless army. They assembled a calvary of about 20000 men. It was only the British that saved you all. If not so you would have been roundly defeated. The fulanis know this so well that's why they don't take you guys seriously. You're a defeated people already. Anybody can research what I wrote her and prove me wrong.

I said it earlier that you people read your history upside down and then put a spin on it to sound intelligent but you can only fool and hoodwink yourself not intelligent folks like myself. If you read Yoruba history straight-up (and not up-side down like you prefer to). The Old Oyo fell to Nupe occupation but the entire territory was violently recovered back by Alaafin Ofiran, every inch of it, but by then a new Oyo had been reconstructed and largely settled so the Old Oyo forever ceased from being the capital of the empire, voluntarily. In other words, Oyos voluntarily chose not to resettle at their old location (that old location is part of the current Yoruba-populated part of Kwara that still has Obas to this very day, areas including Igbomina in the South of Ilorin).

Your stupid self should've asked how come the Fulanis didn't suceed in extending their Emirate beyond ilorin to cover other Yoruba towns in close proximity to Ilorin and in present-day Kwara? You Igbos are a very stupid lot.

How did they British save us? Or you meant to say the Famous Ibadan war-machine? You are a stu.pid fool.

ILORIN IS NOT THE ONLY YORUBA CITY/TOWN IN KWARA, and is one out of many other Towns like Offa, Isin, etc -- these other Yoruba towns still have Yoruba kings to this day. NOW GET THIS INTO YOUR THICK SKULL: The Ilorin Emirate only exists SOLELY because the Yoruba ilorins still want it for whatever sentimental attachment they have towards it, and it will cease to exist the day they reject it. QED. Even the Sultan of Sokoto (paramount ruler of the Emirates) can be dethroned by the President of the Federation (Abacha did it once by dethroning Dasuki) -- meaning those institutions are mere figure-heads today and have no real power. Even the Governor of Kwara can dethrone the Emir of ilorin. I hope your punk ass has been schooled.

Ah, Kanu mustn't hear this! Lest he declares all-out war on the 'zoo'. Biafra war 2.0 reloading......

PentiumPro:


Do you get paid for these nonsense you engage on NL? If the answer is no, they you are wasting away a huge chunk of your productive life.
Sad but true.

He needs a real job, sharply sharply, so that he can move out of his mother's house. At 50-years plus he still lives with his mom, no wife, isn't gainfully employed, and smokes riffa all day.

onenaira3:


Don't mind them. Yoruba were the easiest people to conquer by the British. Even Bini conquered them once a upon a time. The Igbo were the hardest to conquer and even after British colonized all Nigeria, it was srilll Igbo that kept on fighting them even during colonization. The yoloba should thank middle belt, if not for them, the Fulani colonization of them wouldn't be en just in illorin, it would have been the entire sw land.

Instead of acting a fool and talking crap about what you know nothing about you can easily pick up a book and read up on how the Fulanis were decisively defeated by the Yorubas at Osogbo, a feat that forever perished the thought of their ever venturing into our lands ever since. The middle-belt didn't in any way hinder the Fulani ambitions up until that decisive defeat. Google is your friend.

None of your grandstanding can alter the fact that the British regarded Igbos as slavish, subservient and docile towards the whiteman, in contrast to the Yorubaman; at least Harold Smith, one of the colonial officers the British Government sent to rig Nigeria’s pre-independence elections, thought so according to his autobiography:

“But the British were not treated as gods by the Yoruba. In my experience, the Yoruba regarded themselves as superior to the British and one only had to read a book written by Awolowo, the Western leader, to know why. The Yoruba were often highly intelligent and they taunted the British with sending inferior people to Nigeria. The Igbo would be humble and avert his eyes in the presence of a European. The Yoruba child would look at an important European and shout, ‘Hello, white man,’ as if he were a freak.”


“The thrust of the British Government’s policy was against the Action Group led by Chief Awolowo, which ruled in the Western Region. Not only was the British Government working hand in glove with the North, which was a puppet state favoured and controlled by the British administration, but it was colluding through Okotie-Eboh with Dr. Azikiwe – Zik – the leader of the largely Igbo NCNC, which ruled in the East. We tricked Azikiwe into accepting to be president having known that Balewa will be the main man with power. Awolowo has to go to jail to cripple his genius plans for a greater Nigeria.”

Jaideyone:
I don't know why you ediots try to tarnish other people's history just because of the hate you have for them. you really are a phool. now read this I understand you ibos never had anything close to civilization before the coming of the white man. don't try to change history

https://takeupanarm./2011/04/22/how-and-what-made-oyo-collapse/

Don't mind that guy. He has a penchant for reading history and then putting his own spin on it/rewriting it to sound intelligent. But he ain't fooling no one.

chuna1985:



So out of the whole igbo land, only small pocket(delta state) was conquered by all mighty Bini empire

Why didn't they conquer igbo land since we are weaklings.

It took the colonial masters 35 years to conquer igbo land, that should show u why no one dared to attack d weak igbos.

Look, there's no point flogging a dead horse. That Bini influence extended into the present-day Onitsha in the SE as the Aniomas and Onitshas are practically one and same people separated by the Niger. Truth is, we are talking about a period of time when most tribes weren't really united under an umbrella of "Yoruba", "Igbo", "Hausa-Fulani" appellation or whatever. The Arochukwu saw themselves as distinct from the Nris and made the raiding, enslaving/selling, and kidnapping of their kinsmen a preferred pastime. Those were the days of unbriddled brutality and inhumanity all over Africa and much of the world. To say that Igbos were never at any point 'conquered' by either their own kin or outsiders is nothing but a fantasy.

chuna1985:



As igbos were weaklings, why didn't Yoruba n Bini empire take their warriors to colonize or enslave IGBO

Answer that quietly to ur self.

Guy, be careful about saying what you know little about. Oyo kingdom never extended into Igbo enclave, that is not in doubt. But evidently the Bini empire (under Oba Eware the Great) did conquer and colonize Ika-Igbos and made them tributaries (in present-day Anioma/Asaba axis of Delta state), unless you wanna deny their being igbos. Which explains the heavy Bini-influence in those parts.

Woman, I put it to you that you are a wicked someborri!!