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Ibadan

Ibadan is the state capital of Oyo State. with a population of over 3 million, it is the most populous city in the state, and the third most populous, in Nigeria, after Lagos and Kano; it is also the country's largest city by geographical area. At Nigerian independence, Ibadan was the largest and most populous city in the country, and the third in Africa after Cairo and Johannesburg.

Ibadan is located in south-western Nigeria, 128 km inland northeast of Lagos and 530 km southwest of Abuja, the federal capital, and is a prominent transit point between the coastal region and the areas in the hinterland of the country. Ibadan had been the centre of administration of the old Western Region since the days of the British colonial rule, and parts of the city's ancient protective walls still stand to this day. The principal inhabitants of the city are the Yorubas, as well as various communities from other parts of the country..

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Some forty thousand of them lived in New Ibadan, the only community that was even close to the size of a city.

The political arrangements of the colonists, according to Starfleet records, consisted of elected town councils and a city council that governed New Ibadan, all of which were overseen by a leader known as the First Citizen, who was appointed by the members of the various councils.

The city council of New Ibadan had sent them a subspace message a week ago, saying that they would welcome the Earthfolk from the Hawking as new settlers, but the leader would now be expecting a greeting from Captain Kirk.

She is at a meeting of the New Ibadan city council now, but you will be able to speak to her very soon.

Not long after that, while still a child, Teressa had learned that many of the people in New Ibadan had dreamed her dream.

Her living quarters were three floors up in the four-story building that housed the New Ibadan City Council offices, meeting rooms, and apartments of the council members and their families.

We also have more than enough families in New Ibadan who are willing to open their homes to the new settlers until they decide where they want to live permanently.

On the southern bank, across from the city of New Ibadan, was a flat green plain and patches of blue wildflowers.

From here, he could see that most of the buildings in New Ibadan were small square wooden structures with tiled roofs, usually built around courtyards and carefully tended gardens.

Several people in Shaku and New Ibadan were also dreaming the same nightmare.

Dawn Voth did some discreet investigation yesterday, and she reports that people all over New Ibadan are dreaming identical dreams.

Dawn Voth had sent a message saying that households all over New Ibadan were complaining about children terrified by bad dreams, adults who had awakened with temporary losses of memory, and pets that had howled throughout the night.

Temba River, and fingers of grass are slipping into the river, as if trying to form a bridge from the southern bank over to New Ibadan itself.

Five young men and women, wearing what Cortes recognized as the light blue shirts of the New Ibadan civic patrol, stood at the top of the steps.

Another man, a city councilman named Muhammad Alagbe, handed out hand phasers to each of the volunteers who would be stationed along the riverbank, with members of the New Ibadan civic patrol, to fire at any mats of growth on the opposite bank in order to prevent the greenery from spreading across the water.