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Kingsway Ibadan: Before and After

Both pictures are side views of Kingsway Ibadan. The first depicts the building in its present dilapidated form (2018). The second shows the building in 1950 - picture is credited to Google.

These pictures speak in succinct form how much progress Nigeria has made in its national life.

Source: https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1263625253781567&id=1256891871121572

The present state of the Kingsway building aptly depicts the state of Nigeria - a nation on decline with decaying infrastructures and abandoned projects.

Constituted Authority! Where art thou?

Mr Koseleri of Africa... Another Strike ongoing in Ibadan at the moment.

APC!! See your governors disgracing your Party up and down.

These governors are big thieves ooo... We don't know how much they receive as salaries, they don't tell the masses how funds are being spent. No agency investigates their Private s.

Immunity is what they enjoy while Mr Buhari believes we don't need restructuring...

Oh! Nigeria My Dear Country

Ehya

nothing new. its expected

We have ShopRite now.

They should sell it off to those who can make the best use of it.

Shoprite ti take over

The first pix isn't 2018. The second pix is

Edit

I cant bilif this

They are not same buildings..

My mom always talked about how their "meat pie "was the best then. And the doughnuts too..

Em... I'm I the only one who's still not understanding the difference??

everything gets bad in Nigeria by the second

maintenance culture is zero in Nigeria.

They had the best meat pie down west then, then when Osun was created, presidential hotel had the same pie taste. Christmas was always fun at Kingsway back then used to come all the way from OYO township if we decide not to celebrate at LAMBAMBA in Oyo.

Baby Kingsway


Indomie generation will not dig

Shoprite (a South African coy) came to our rescue.


It shall never be well with Lord Luggard and his babe, Flora.

a country that has its root in backwardness

Funny. So you would say shopping malls are on decline just because a particular store isn't running again? Wrong analogy! We have far better malls and stores now....

chukxie:
The present state of the Kingsway building aptly depicts the state of Nigeria - a nation on decline with decaying infrastructures and abandoned projects.

We need help. I think it will be best if our colonial masters return to re-colonise us.

This is shameful

Instead of allowing the building to rot away, why can't they(govt) give it out on lease just to keep it running and maintained

Our govt can only build, to maintain is always a problem for them.

Nawtiblayse:
Em... I'm I the only one who's still not understanding the difference??

the same here...

2shure:
ibadan has always knownbyo bring shame in pictures.
the before picture..looks like 100$ bill in washington DC
while the fuckin present pix is shows afonnjas cant do wuthout dilapidated tetanus old brown rusty shiiit.

Coordinate yourself and type properly. If your mediocre fathers could not construct a mall 50 years ago, does it mean you too should not be able to construct a single paragraph in proper English?

Ison are ruining Nigerian youth...they should be chase out of that building

Maintenance culture = zero




The old generation have failed us .

Majesticniyi:
Funny. So you would say shopping malls are on decline just because a particular store isn't running again? Wrong analogy! We have far better malls and stores now....

Actually you have a point just like Mr Biggs first came and now fading off. But what stops us from maintaining our assets? I can trans-wonderland in Ibadan back then, it was great even people used to come all the way from Lagos on Saturdays and Sundays. But now.......................

Who owned the building?

Okoyeebos:
I can see some wawa Jews peeping into this thread..

Those fan yogo and gala hawkers make fun of Ibadan's brown roofs because they have no history. They fail to realize that as at the time those houses with brown roofs were being built, their fathers were still living in trees.

In your mind, you have said something sensible abi
Like the same thing cannot be said about any other place in the country
smh

2shure:
ibadan has always knownbyo bring shame in pictures.
the before picture..looks like 100$ bill in washington DC
while the fuckin present pix is shows afonnjas cant do wuthout dilapidated tetanus old brown rusty shiiit.

You wouldnt have anything close to this in igbo land,they were all destroyed during the civil war
You dont have history just brand new cities

seun commot smile y cant add to ur like nah waa. try upgrade

bettercreature:
You wouldnt have anything close to this in igbo land,they were all destroyed during the civil war
You dont have history just brand new cities

What was destroyed during the civil war?

Even before the civil war, what was in the East?
Before the colonialists came, what was in the East?
What monuments or landmarks are on record to have come from the East?
What prominent city did their ancestors build in the East?