Stories
Profiles, place stories and social enterprise stories from Ibadan.
The waste-to-wealth studio: inside Planet 3R's Ibadan operation
Direct, verified local social enterprise turning Ibadan's sachet-water and textile waste into jobs and fashion — a concrete, positive local-economy story with a real named founder and figures.
Bodija's new shops: did the relocation work for traders?
Direct — tests whether the government's 540-shop, no-cost relocation for roadside traders actually improved conditions, set against a separate 1,000-shop demolition protest at Bodija International Market.
Fabric costs, tailoring cooperatives and Ibadan's fashion economy
Direct — documented disruption of the local fashion economy by rising fabric prices, with named cooperative members describing community-based coping strategies.
Crop2Cash: from Ibadan startup to national agritech financing platform
Direct — a homegrown Ibadan agritech startup with a founder team, product suite and verifiable funding/impact numbers, illustrating the city's startup ecosystem beyond Lagos.
Cocoa House at 60: a landmark's second life as a coworking hub
Direct — a verifiable heritage landmark (West Africa's first skyscraper) that has organically become a modern coworking and startup hub, bridging Ibadan's cocoa-boom past and tech-ecosystem present.
Oke Ibadan Festival: measuring culture's economic multiplier
Direct — a named, dated 2026 cultural festival with public claims about its effect on hotels, transport and market patronage; a story could quantify and verify those claims with named businesses.
Ibadan's creator economy comes of age
Direct — a dated Sept 2026 event explicitly aimed at helping local creators (photography, videography, writing, podcasting) build sustainable careers, tying into national data on podcast-sector maturity.
Digital payments on the market floor: how Ibadan traders are adapting
Direct — national fintech competition (OPay vs Moniepoint) and a new CBN single-principal rule intersect concretely with how Ibadan's traditional market traders take payment.