INTERESTING FACTS YOU SEEM NOT TO KNOW ABOUT IBADAN

OLADEJI OLANREWAJU ABDULWASIU a.k.a
Kim Ola

_"The only source of knowledge is experience"_

Ibadan was created in 1829 as a war camp for warriors coming from Oyo, Ife and Ijebu. A forest site and several ranges of hills, varying in elevation from 160 to 275 metres, offered strategic defence opportunities.
Ibadan is the largest indigenous city in West Africa and is located in the South Western part of Oyo State of Nigeria.It is the capital city of Oyo State and is located about 145 km north-east of Lagos, the commercial capital of Nigeria. Its population of 2,550,593 according to 2006 census results,includes 11 local government areas.The population of central Ibadan, including five LGAs, is 1,338,659 according to census results for 2006, covering an area of 128 km².

1. Ibadan is a city built on seven hills.
Ibadan (Yoruba: Ìbàdàn or fully Ìlú Ẹ̀bá-Ọ̀dàn, the town at the junction of the savannah and the forest), the capital of Oyo State, is the second largest city in Nigeria by population after Lagos and the largest in geographical area. At independence, Ibadan was the largest and the most populous city in Nigeria and the third in Africa after Cairo and Johannesburg.

2. Ibadan is the largest city in Nigeria by geographical area. It is larger in size than Ekiti, Abia, Ebonyi, Imo, Anambra and Lagos States.
It is more populous than Ondo, Osun, Kogi, Zamfara, Enugu, Kebbi, Edo, Plateau, Adamawa, Cross River, Abia, Ekiti, Kwara, Gombe, Yobe, Taraba, Ebonyi, Nasarawa, Bayelsa States and Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory.
And it is more industrialized than Sokoto, Jigawa, Adamawa, Taraba, Plateau, Ebonyi, Ekiti, Osun, Bayelsa, Cross River, Kwara, Kogi, Kaduna, Kebbi, Gombe, Bauchi and Borno States.

3. Ibadan as a city, has 11 local government areas; three more than Bayelsa State and just two less than Ebonyi State.

4. The first skyscraper in Nigeria, Cocoa House, is in Ibadan.

5. The busiest highway in Nigeria, Lagos-Ibadan expressway, terminates in Ibadan.

6. The first television station in Africa is in Ibadan.

7. Tourist attractions in Ibadan include:
👉Agodi Gardens and Leisure Park.
👉The Palms shopping mall, Ring Road.
👉Ventura Mall, Samonda.
👉University of Ibadan Zoological Garden.
👉Bower Tower.
👉Mapo Hall.
👉Kankanfo Inn, etc.