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Published 25 December 2020
If you are not coming through the ports, the ancient and Nigeria’s largest city by geography, Ibadan, remains your major funnel from any part of the country to enter the megacity and most populous city, Lagos. Ibadan and Lagos share such a close proximity that the relationship between the two states is so intertwined and had birthed an age long cultural saying that, ‘bi e ba wa mi de Eko, ti e ko ba mi n’ile, Ibadan ni mo wa’ (if you seek me in Lagos and cannot find me at home, I am in Ibadan).