If you are not an indigent of Ibadan, but you live in Ibadan or planning to relocate to Ibadan, the largest city in Africa where many historical events in Nigeria first took place.
The first television station in Nigeria is Ibadan, the first teaching hospital is in Ibadan, the first stadium is in Ibadan, first University is in Ibadan, first road constructed is in Ibadan, first University Technology same Ibadan.
So if you are relocating to Ibadan or you want to be on transit to the city, you might have heard some misconception about Ibadan like:
The town is dead; the people are just backward and crude. You can’t survive there, it is a dead zone.
Dailyfamily.ng look at some of the misconceptions about the ancient town
Ibadan town is outdated or dead town. This statement might seem harsh, but many people have used it in reference to the city of the famous old brown roofs.
The statement simply means the town is boring and there are no exciting or even just fun activities to keep visitors and inhabitants occupied for leisure. But these are not true.
There are various tourist attractions to visit such as Ibadan Recreation Centre, Cultural Centre of Mokola, Liberty Stadium, Bower Memorial Tower , Palace of the Olubadan, Dugbe Market, Cocoa House, University of Ibadan Zoo, etc.
There are no hanging out places at nightlife.
Sometimes some of your friends who lived in another town might say this to you “what are you doing in that boring town, that dead zone where there is no social life at night, where they sleep by 6pm”. Although Ibadan is not like Lagos, Abuja or even Port Harcourt, Ibadan people are well cultured that is why they do all modern things in a coded way so that it will not tarnish their image.
Ibadan people are not trendy.
You might have come across some pictures of people looking weird on social media and they will attribute them to Ibadan with a caption like: “Ibadan girls be like…” or “ this can only happen in Ibadan ” you can only see this in Ibadan”. Some people might see it has entertaining or even hilarious, it fosters a huge misconception about the town.
Ibadan people are swaggalicious people and fashionable. They know all the latest styles in town but they like doing their things in a coded way.
People who live in Ibadan are not techs savvy
This is far from the truth. People in Ibadan know how to use phones, they use high-tech gadgets and their businesses have blogs and websites, just like in Lagos or any other “big city” in Nigeria.
Every person with a tribal mark is from Ibadan.
Ha! This really funny . In the olden days aside from aesthetics, tribal marks are part of cultures across Nigeria.
It is used to indicate where a person comes from. But recently with the advent of civilization, the tribal mark trend has waned, so very few people still have the tribal marks on them. However, people now refer to anyone with a ‘Yoruba-like’ tribal mark as ‘from Ibadan’.
This is a misconception, many towns and villages still given their children the marks.
Anyone with a strong Yoruba accent is from Ibadan.
The Yoruba accent simply implies the “s”, ” c”, factor. Like in Sunday (sande) ,church (sosi)
It is widely believed that people from Ibadan are the only ones who have strong Yoruba accents and are never rid of them.
there is no actual proof for the notion, because many Ibadan are grammarians and good in phonics.
Ibadan people do not like going to school
There is a misconception about Ibadan people in term of education, some people will say Ibadan people are only good at selling land which they inherited from their parents but this is far from the truth, Ibadan indigents are well educated and they occupied many offices across the country.
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