<P> There are some good golf courses: the Ibadan Golf Club is a large 18 - hole challenge and the Barracks course has just been extended to 18 holes . The most challenging and exclusive is the 9 - hole IITA Golf Club based on the 1,000 hectare premises of IITA . </P> <P> Ibadan is host to Nigeria's premier higher institution of learning, The University of Ibadan . Established as a college of the University of London in 1948, and later converted into an autonomous university in 1962, it has the distinction of being one of the premier educational institutions in Africa . Other higher educational institutions in the city include; The Polytechnic, Ibadan, Lead City University, Koladaisi University, Federal college of Animal health and Production Technology, Federal College of Forestry, Highland College of Technology, Samonda, Federal School of Statistics, Tower Polytechnic, Ibadan, Ibadan City Polytechnic, Citigate Polytechnic, NIIT University among others . </P> <P> There are also numerous public and private primary and secondary schools located in the city and its suburbs . Other noteworthy institutions in the city include The University College Hospital, Ibadan (UCH), which is the first teaching hospital in Nigeria; the internationally acclaimed International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) headquartered in the city . Established in 1967, it focuses on the agricultural and developmental needs of tropical countries, with several research stations spread across Africa . The Nigerian Institute of Social and Economic Research (NISER), The Cocoa Research Institute of Nigeria, The National Root Crops Research Institute, and The Institute of Agricultural Research and Training (IAR&T), The Forestry Research Institute of Nigeria, The Nigerian Horticultural Research Institute (NIHORT), all under the auspices of The Agricultural Research Council of Nigeria . </P> <P> Before the dissolution of the Western Region, Nigeria, Ibadan and its environs were the home of the most sophisticated and liberal scientific and cultural community on the continent of Africa, as personified by the immortalized Ibadan School of historiography . </P>

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