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Ibadan (UK: / ɪˈbædən /, US: / ɪˈbɑːdən /; [ 4 ] Yoruba: Ìbàdàn) is the capital and most populous city of Oyo State, in Nigeria. It is the third-largest city by population in Nigeria after Lagos and Kano, with a total population of 2,649,000 as of 2021, and over 3 million people within its metropolitan area. It is one of the country ...
Oyo State is a state in southwestern Nigeria.Its capital is Ibadan, the third most populous city in the country and formerly the second most populous city in Africa. [8] Oyo State is bordered to the north by Kwara State for 337 km, to the southeast by Osun State for 187 km, partly across the River Osun, and to the south by Ogun State, and to the west by the Republic of Benin for 98 km.
The South West (often hyphenated to the South-West) is the one of the six geopolitical zones of Nigeria representing both a geographic and political region of the country's southwest. It comprises six states — Ekiti, Lagos, Ogun, Ondo, Osun, and Oyo. [1][2] It makes up part of Yorubaland in Nigeria, with Kwara and parts of Kogi completing it.
Infantry in the region around the Oyo Empire was uniform in both armour and armament. All infantry in the region carried shields, swords and lances of one type or another. [13] Shields were four feet tall and two feet wide and made of elephant or ox hide. [40] A 3-foot-long (0.91 m) heavy sword was the main armament for close combat. [40]
Regions with significant populations; Nigeria: 42,600,000 (2020) [2] Benin: ... Ibadan, a city-state and proto-empire that was founded in the 1800s by a polyglot ...
Yorubaland (Yoruba: Ilẹ̀ Káàárọ̀-Oòjíire) is the homeland and cultural region of the Yoruba people in West Africa. It spans the modern-day countries of Nigeria, Togo and Benin, and covers a total land area of 142,114 km 2 (54,871 sq mi). Of this land area, 106,016 km 2 (74.6%) lies within Nigeria, 18.9% in Benin, and the remaining 6. ...
The main reason for the civil war was an attempt to halt the expansive efforts of the Ibadan city-state, which attempted to replace the Oyo Empire as the dominant region in Yorubaland. [1] In addition, Ibadan wanted a unified Yoruba nation similar to that of the Oyo Empire , while the Ijesha wanted a loose confederation of kingdoms that had ...
University of Ibadan. " Recte Sapere Fons " (To think straight is the fount of knowledge). [2] The University of Ibadan (UI) is a public research university in Ibadan, Nigeria. The university was once a college of the University of London. The college was established in 1948 as University College Ibadan, one of many colleges within the ...