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Three Historical Buildings In Nigeria, The Historic Bodija Housing Estate Ibadan by Racoon(m): 2:22pm On Jul 22
-1). The First-Storey Building in Nigeria

The construction of the first-storey building in Nigeria started in 1842 and was completed in 1845. After completion, Bishop Samuel Ajayi Crowther lived there with his family, and it was here that he translated the English Bible into the language.

This building is home to many historical relics, such as:

The first cemented well in Nigeria. The first primary school in Nigeria. Nigeria’s oldest Bible, written in an indigenous language. It is estimated that at least 2000 people visit every year.

-2). Jaekel House

Jaekel House was constructed in 1898 and is one of the oldest buildings within the Nigerian Railway Compound Lagos. It is named after Francis Jaekel OBE, a former superintendent of the Nigerian Railway Corporation.

The house is now managed and maintained by Legacy1995 to preserve the legacy of Nigeria’s earliest railway tracks, repair yards, and sheds. Today it houses a mini museum housing artefacts and mementos showcasing Nigeria’s railway history.


Visitors to the Jaekel House Museum can see British weaponry, miniature reproductions of trains, and other artefacts and photographs linked to the period’s civilian, political, and military life.

-3). Ancient Kano City Walls
Kano, now one of the most populated cities in West Africa, was surrounded by the ancient Kano city walls hundreds of years before British colonists arrived in Nigeria.

The brown-mud wall stands thirty to fifty feet high and measures 40 feet thick and was constructed between 1095 and 1134 and completed in the middle of the 14th century.

The city of Kano was a center for Islamic studies and a thriving hub with abundant water and iron deposits at the time, so the leadership took extra security precautions by using the ancient Kano city walls to monitor all entry and exit and protect the city from outside invasion.

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Bodija Housing Estate; THE First Housing Estate in Nigeria.
The Bodija Housing Estate in Ibadan, constructed in 1959, is Nigeria’s first housing estate. All the houses in the Estate had all the basic amenities: light, water, garden, and gardens. The only difference in the houses were the architectural designs, the materials used, and the number of rooms in each structure.


Most of the houses in the area were then occupied by white-collar workers and professionals. Recently it was divided into Old and New Bodija, housing hotels, lounges, restaurants, shopping malls, and modern houses. It remains Nigeria’s first housing estate.
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Re: Three Historical Buildings In Nigeria, The Historic Bodija Housing Estate Ibadan by Racoon(m): 2:23pm On Jul 22
wink Historical sites and relics. I have been to the Badagry story building, the old railway building @ Iddo train terminal but yet to see the ancient walls of Kano.

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Re: Three Historical Buildings In Nigeria, The Historic Bodija Housing Estate Ibadan by Racoon(m): 2:24pm On Jul 22
The Bodija Estate is really a serene housing system that is really desirable given the population expansion and pressure in today's Nigeria especially the houses around the Oshuntokun Avenue area.

The first time I set my eyes on it in 1986, I knew it must be the colonial masters brain work because of it location, road networks, design, and accessibility to and from the Oyo State government house and secretariat

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Re: Three Historical Buildings In Nigeria, The Historic Bodija Housing Estate Ibadan by GanagiBitrus: 2:30pm On Jul 22
The most remarkable should be the Ancient Kano City Walls.

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Re: Three Historical Buildings In Nigeria, The Historic Bodija Housing Estate Ibadan by budaatum: 3:03pm On Jul 22
Racoon:
The Bodija Estate is really a serene housing system that is really a desirable given the population expansion and pressure in today's Nigeria. The first time I set my eyes on it in 1986, I knew it must be the colonial masters brain work because of it location, road networks, design, location and accessibility from the Oyo State government house and secretariat

Serene, until an explosion disturbed the serenity one day.

Re: Three Historical Buildings In Nigeria, The Historic Bodija Housing Estate Ibadan by Snake001: 3:15pm On Jul 22
Hehehe

I thought some people said the first storey building in Nigeria is located in one of those 5 plots of land.

Dem with foolish hyping propaganda na 5&6.


Charliewyt:



You're the only one that "[/b] thought and said [b] no one else.
Go baff make you come eat.

Hehehe

Who is this third-class citizen?

Na everybody dey hungry like people for una 5 plots of land ?

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Re: Three Historical Buildings In Nigeria, The Historic Bodija Housing Estate Ibadan by Donald7610: 3:15pm On Jul 22
TOWER OF BABEL OF NIGERIA

NOAH PIKIN FAR ADVANCE
Re: Three Historical Buildings In Nigeria, The Historic Bodija Housing Estate Ibadan by ScratchDtoto: 3:16pm On Jul 22
Helinues is your father that build it too

Claim it like you claim Lagos

And tell me the benefit of hitting your head and shouting Lagos from morning till night

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Re: Three Historical Buildings In Nigeria, The Historic Bodija Housing Estate Ibadan by 2special(m): 3:17pm On Jul 22
Racoon:
The Bodija Estate is really a serene housing system that is really a desirable given the population expansion and pressure in today's Nigeria. The first time I set my eyes on it in 1986, I knew it must be the colonial masters brain work because of it location, road networks, design, location and accessibility from the Oyo State government house and secretariat
Good afternoon sir......God bless you sir

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Re: Three Historical Buildings In Nigeria, The Historic Bodija Housing Estate Ibadan by illuminutty: 3:17pm On Jul 22
I like Bodija

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Re: Three Historical Buildings In Nigeria, The Historic Bodija Housing Estate Ibadan by Abbeyme: 3:19pm On Jul 22
Westerners
Re: Three Historical Buildings In Nigeria, The Historic Bodija Housing Estate Ibadan by GeneralPula: 3:20pm On Jul 22
Damaged control from a hardcore tribal & bigot human..


After creating a thread filled with lies earlier, he’s now wanting to cover up..

https://www.nairaland.com/8161514/meet-captain-chinyere-onyenaucheya-nigerias

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Re: Three Historical Buildings In Nigeria, The Historic Bodija Housing Estate Ibadan by updatechange(m): 3:20pm On Jul 22
What about the great walls of Benin..? But wait Shey na only 2 regions Dey for that period?
This must be marginalization from the white people, why will they leave a whole region without any historical relics.
We won’t accept this, lord lugard must hear this.

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Re: Three Historical Buildings In Nigeria, The Historic Bodija Housing Estate Ibadan by ednut1(m): 3:22pm On Jul 22
First story building is false. There were slave castles in the 18 th century in places like calabar, escravos, badagry. Some of These buildings were storey buildings 🥱

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Re: Three Historical Buildings In Nigeria, The Historic Bodija Housing Estate Ibadan by Nkl4u: 3:22pm On Jul 22
The Jaekel house is beautiful

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Re: Three Historical Buildings In Nigeria, The Historic Bodija Housing Estate Ibadan by samuel19222(m): 3:24pm On Jul 22
shocked to
Re: Three Historical Buildings In Nigeria, The Historic Bodija Housing Estate Ibadan by wizelink(m): 3:25pm On Jul 22
Great
Re: Three Historical Buildings In Nigeria, The Historic Bodija Housing Estate Ibadan by Akfrenzy(m): 3:25pm On Jul 22
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Re: Three Historical Buildings In Nigeria, The Historic Bodija Housing Estate Ibadan by anonimi: 3:25pm On Jul 22
Racoon:
The Bodija Estate is really a serene housing system that is really a desirable given the population expansion and pressure in today's Nigeria. The first time I set my eyes on it in 1986, I knew it must be[b] the colonial masters brain work because of it location, road networks, design, location and accessibility[/b] from the Oyo State government house and secretariat

Bodija estate was built by Awolowo, then Premier of Western Region.


A look at Nigeria’s first housing estate: Bodija housing estate

The Bodija Housing Estate in Ibadan was Nigeria's first housing estate. It came into being when the regional government decided to increase the number of modern houses available in the city. The estate was constructed in 1959.

https://dutumgroup.com/a-look-at-nigerias-first-housing-estate-bodija-housing-estate/#:~:text=The%20Bodija%20Housing%20Estate%20in,estate%20was%20constructed%20in%201959.

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Re: Three Historical Buildings In Nigeria, The Historic Bodija Housing Estate Ibadan by JuanDeDios: 3:25pm On Jul 22
Racoon:

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https://www.facebook.com/share/skgXJpK9Qqg1itBv/?mibextid=oFDknk
You mean we couldn't build houses on houses until Oyinbos came to show us? Our ancestors no try sha.

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Re: Three Historical Buildings In Nigeria, The Historic Bodija Housing Estate Ibadan by naijaguy1234(m): 3:26pm On Jul 22
Nigeria civilization started in south west. You can smash 💥 your head on the rock if you disagree.

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Re: Three Historical Buildings In Nigeria, The Historic Bodija Housing Estate Ibadan by Charliewyt: 3:27pm On Jul 22
Snake001:
Hehehe

I thought some people said the first storey building in Nigeria is located in one of those 5 plots of land.

Dem with foolish hyping propaganda na 5&6.


You're the only one that "[/b] thought and said [b] no one else.
Go baff make you come eat.

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Re: Three Historical Buildings In Nigeria, The Historic Bodija Housing Estate Ibadan by jyz200(m): 3:28pm On Jul 22
History should be introduced back

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Re: Three Historical Buildings In Nigeria, The Historic Bodija Housing Estate Ibadan by HypocriticalObi: 3:28pm On Jul 22
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Re: Three Historical Buildings In Nigeria, The Historic Bodija Housing Estate Ibadan by Elinosweet143(f): 3:28pm On Jul 22
Yeeeeeeeeeh me sef answer present here, the ancient kano city wall, i have been there

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Re: Three Historical Buildings In Nigeria, The Historic Bodija Housing Estate Ibadan by Akfrenzy(m): 3:29pm On Jul 22
grin grin
Re: Three Historical Buildings In Nigeria, The Historic Bodija Housing Estate Ibadan by Sebastine1994(m): 3:30pm On Jul 22
Nice one from the tourism department, but transport is expensive. Tourism is for the rich only

From Abuja to Enugu is 25k by Siena, another 25k for return trip, if you want it cheaper,go to gwagwalada. Transport consumes all my salary.

In Abuja, entertainment is not for the poor too . Just few parks are owned by the government. Jabi lake and millennium park. Those ones are free. But others are payment.

In Abuja you can't just go into an empty land to start playing football, u would be arrested. There are sports facilities for football lovers for 1k per hour, swimming pool 4k ,

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Re: Three Historical Buildings In Nigeria, The Historic Bodija Housing Estate Ibadan by SmartyPants(m): 3:30pm On Jul 22
The first one can't be right. Both the Portuguese and British recorded that they found modern storey buildings in Benin when they came.

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Re: Three Historical Buildings In Nigeria, The Historic Bodija Housing Estate Ibadan by sofeo(m): 3:30pm On Jul 22
Great ones
Re: Three Historical Buildings In Nigeria, The Historic Bodija Housing Estate Ibadan by KingTom(m): 3:31pm On Jul 22
GeneralPula:
Damage control from a hardcore tribal & bigot human..


After creating a thread filled with lies earlier, he’s now wanting to cover up..

https://www.nairaland.com/8161514/meet-captain-chinyere-onyenaucheya-nigerias
You're familiar with the game grin

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