₦airaland Forum

Dear @igbo_marry_igbo,

Thank you for your post. The reason Ibadan has a lot of homes with rustic roofs is not because they are dilapidated. Dilapidated means in a state of disrepair. These homes are not in states of disrepair. They are rustic. Rustic means having a rural charm that is pre modern.

To give you an insight, Ibadan is the third oldest city in Nigeria after Benin and Kano. It is also the largest city in West Africa. The government of the Western Region of Nigeria established by-laws to protect the rustic nature of Ibadan. The Oyo state government retained those laws. What that means is that you cannot build or rebuild these structures without express planning permission. The intention is to retain the rustic charm of Ibadan.

If you travel to Oxford and Cambridge, or if you Google images from those two university towns, you will also find rustic buildings. Tuscany in Italy is another place with a rustic charm. A rustic building is actually more valuable than a brand-new modern building, because of its ancient nature.

A lot of these homes you now call dilapidated were built at a time when there was no single modern building in a particular region of Nigeria. As at the time Ibadan residents were dwelling in these rustic homes, residents in that region were naked and dwelling in mud huts. I have multiple photos, if you would care to see them. But please do not insult me, because I did not take them.

Mapo Hall, Ibadan, which is one of these brown-roofed rustic buildings you now insult, was built in 1925. It is ninety-nine years old. In 1925, only Northern Nigeria, Lagos, Badagry, Calabar, Ota, Port Harcourt, Warri and Benin had modern buildings.

When you do not have ancient rustic buildings in your community or region, you can be forgiven if you do not know their value and call them dilapidated. Ibadan also has the first skyscraper in West Africa-Cocoa House, built in 1964, as well as the first TV station in Africa, the Western Nigeria Television Service, built in 1959, in addition to the first university in Nigeria, established in 1948.

Ibadan city alone attracts more tourists annually than one entire region that I would prefer not to mention. They come to see the rustic buildings you call dilapidated. They visit without being molested or kidnapped. And they are welcome every day, including MONDAY!

Thanks again, and may God bless you.

Naijaagenda:
Waoh
This is HST 101, GST101 in Unilag.
Nigerian people and culture.
When the Obi-diot hand is not yet on the sacred sword, he is asking the elders what killed his father?
Untrained Obi-diot was looking for trouble. Yanga sleep, u go look 4 him trouble! Palaver u dey find, palava u go get.
Joke apart, these are stone words that hit all the untrained Obi-diots that always kick their parents while saying good Morning.
I hope they recover from this painful vrrbal assaults.

legitnow1:
HAVE TINUBU LOOKED HIS WAY YET?


ONCE A LOSER, ALWAYS A LOSER

opamoses1:
I actually learnt a lot from Reno's post. That guy is very knowledgeable.

Dpharisee:
Very stupid explanation, as if Nigerians abhor leaving in luxury but loves living in old dilapidated rustic buildings.

Reno should rest abeg, Tinubu has heard about his Ronuing activities but doesn't have space for more appointments in his cabinet

Dpharisee:
Very stupid explanation, as if Nigerians abhor leaving in luxury but loves living in old dilapidated rustic buildings.
What you see there is a reflection of the economic situation of the country and not just Ibadan.

Dubai, Medina, Mecca and Rome are older than Ibadan and should have retained their thatched houses from the days of Prophet Muhammad to preserve the history of Islam and Christianity.

Some of those cities he mentioned in England cost the City Council so much annually to maintain the integrity of those structures for historical purposes and many are even unoccupied because of the cost of modernising them, how much does our state governments spend to maintain the rustic buildings across the country, all they do is bring up statistics that 4,5m people in Oyo or Enugu state still defecate in the open and lack access to portable water, where does these 4.5m people live, its in those old rustic buildings.

Reno should rest abeg, Tinubu has heard about his Ronuing activities but doesn't have space for more appointments in his cabinet

saxywale1:
Like you are on the side of the tribalist girl, and also angry that a tribalist was tutored LMAO.

ElohimShenRa:
Reno Omokri has been bursting their propaganda bubbles and schooling them since forever.

Ibadan city alone attracts more tourists annually than one entire region that I would prefer not to mention. They come to see the rustic buildings you call dilapidated. They visit without being molested or kidnapped. And they are welcome every day, including MONDAY!

Dpharisee:
Very stupid explanation, as if Nigerians abhor leaving in luxury but loves living in old dilapidated rustic buildings.
What you see there is a reflection of the economic situation of the country and not just Ibadan.

Dubai, Medina, Mecca and Rome are older than Ibadan and should have retained their thatched houses from the days of Prophet Muhammad to preserve the history of Islam and Christianity.

Some of those cities he mentioned in England cost the City Council so much annually to maintain the integrity of those structures for historical purposes and many are even unoccupied because of the cost of modernising them, how much does our state governments spend to maintain the rustic buildings across the country, all they do is bring up statistics that 4,5m people in Oyo or Enugu state still defecate in the open and lack access to portable water, where does these 4.5m people live, its in those old rustic buildings.

Reno should rest abeg, Tinubu has heard about his Ronuing activities but doesn't have space for more appointments in his cabinet

plaindealer:
Reno kick dem inside gutter with this TKO.

opamoses1:
I actually learnt a lot from Reno's post. That guy is very knowledgeable.

opamoses1:
I actually learnt a lot from Reno's post. That guy is very knowledgeable.

Ibadan also has the first skyscraper in West Africa-Cocoa House, built in 1964, as well as the first TV station in Africa, the Western Nigeria Television Service, built in 1959, in addition to the first university in Nigeria, established in 1948.

Bobloco:
I hope you can as well attest to his knowledgeability when he called Tinubu a KNOWN DRUG LORD

plaindealer:
What's this rubbish got to do with the topic?

The only drug lords in Nigeria and known to the world are your brothers and sisters, they arrest them in Nigeria and all over the world every day, they are in prisons and on death row all over the world for narcotics.

Look in the mirror.

Bobloco:
Plaindealer, I wasn't referring to you

Stop being a busy body

Dafresh:
Dey there de drink water from rusting zinc.

chopnaira:
I am happy the nuisance got lectured.