₦airaland Forum

kilode100:
Nna, I don't do smallie blockous. The bigger the better. Sorry.

kilode100:
Hian!!.. Only It's too small biko

kilode100:
That depends on the size of your blockous. How many inches are you?

kilode100:
And then??

kilode100:
I pity the woman o. Small children always fvcking madam husband. I would ve done worse o..

enytine:
I was once flogged 20 for plugging mango in secondary school and till today, I wonder how 20 strokes is meant for mango

soversatile:
must u replied that retard

Anazp:
u celebrate mediocrity by using the word tropical Africa. do you understand the region at all? this region is one of the poorest in the world. compare yourself with the world's best not some mediocres u celebrate mediocrity by using the word tropical Africa. do you understand the region at all? this region is one of the poorest in the world. compare yourself with the world's best not some mediocres

chedet:
[size=14pt]I have busted this myth before:

Skyscraper is often used for building of more than 150m tall, Cocoa house is 105m tall, at best, you can call it high rise building.

H[s]owever, even if we use the word skyscraper, Cocoa house, with a height of 105m, finished in 1965 couldn't have been the first skyscraper in tropical African or Nigeria when Independence house in Lagos, with height of 103m was finished five years early in 19607[/s][/size]

Davidifeanyi:
My guy this one na mountain scraper ooo.
22 storey building can not scrap the sky pls
The real skyscraper in Dubai is about 830meters tall....we need to upgrade lol.

NewNigeriaMind:
Now that the wailing wailers are here to compare our heritage with 2015 dubai and new York. What that tells the Yorubas is that stop measuring your success with the locals in Nigeria
Set the standard of your success higher to dubai and new York which are first world nations.

The good thing is, you are shooting for the sun and even if you lose you will land among the stars.


Like I said, when that building was put up, there was not even a bungalow in dubai. If dubai is where it is now, I hope the Yoruba nation get the message.

amadice:
...e no dey pain me...was expecting something juicy on Ur thread but was so disappointed... no vex

amadice:
...e no dey pain me...was expecting something juicy on Ur thread but was so disappointed... no vex

amadice:
why do we like celebrating mediocrity in dis country.....presenting an old fashioned building and electrifying... mtcheeew

Freemanan:
Pix nau

The city of Ibadan in southwestern Nigeria is
the site of Cocoa House, the first skyscraper in
tropical Africa. The building is a modest 24
storey high-rise structure, property of Odu'a
Investment Company Ltd. Cocoa House is a
major landmark in Ibadan.

Ibadan - Though Lagos Metropolis, as the
industrial and commercial hub of southwest
Nigeria, claims pre-eminence over Ibadan, from
a historical perspective Ibadan is Lagos's big
sister. Beginning from the middle of the
eighteenth century, Ibadan rose to prominence
as the dominant military power among Yoruba
towns of the forest belt of southwest Nigeria.
Its military power was unchallenged until the
imposition of British Protectorate in 1893.
The city was the seat of the government of the
defunct Western Region in the 1960s, and
under the premiership of late Chief Obafemi
Awolowo, Ibadan established itself as the most
progressive city in Nigeria with a formidable list
of "firsts" which made her the envy of other
cities and role model for progressive political
and social culture. Ibadan was the site of one
of the first universities in sub-Saharan Africa.
The city, under Chief Obafemi Awolowo, opened
the WNTV, first television station in Africa.
Ibadan also was the site of the first skyscraper
in tropical Africa, Cocoa House.
The building formerly called "Ile Awon
Agbe" (i.e. "House of Farmers" is now
popularly known as Cocoa House. It was the
tallest building in Africa in the 1960s. The
regional administration of Awolowo was proud
to tell the world, in the era before the Oil Boom,
that Cocoa House was built entirely from
proceeds of international trade in agricultural
commodities such as cocoa, rubber and
timber.

The whole of Ibadan stood still on January 9,
1985, when news spread that Cocoa House
was on fire. The city's fire fighters watched
helplessly as fire, which began in the top
storeys, gutted the entire building. Ibadan's fire
fighters had neither the equipment nor training
for fighting fire in a skyscraper. It was lucky
that the fire began after offices had closed for
the day, possibly from an electrical spark in a
malfunctioning electrical equipment.

The house was finally renovated for use in
August 1992, and one of Ibadan's best known
night clubs now shares premises with Cocoa
House.