Mapo Hall

Mapo Hall is the colonial-style Ibadan City Hall on top of Mapo Hill in Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria.[1] Mapo Hall was commissioned during the colonial era by Captain Ross in 1929. It was designed and constructed by engineer Robert Jones.[3] Officially Robert A. Jones (1882–1949), "Taffy" was a Welsh man who worked in southern Nigeria between 1910 and 1944 and was seconded to Ibadan Native Authority in 1923 as a road engineer, where he remained until his retirement to Wales.[4] He is also ascribed as being the engineer who built Manor House in Iseyin.[5] The cost of construction was £24,000 and construction took four years between 1925 and 1929.[6] The foundation stone was laid in June 1925 by Capt. W. A. Ross (The Resident, Oyo Province) and it was completed and declared open by His Excellency, Sir Graeme Thomson during the traditional leadership of Oba Shiyanbola Ladugbolu, the Alaafin of Oyo and Oyewole, the Baale of Ibadan.