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H1 3 : There is a significant relationship between students’ accommodation and their age. e) Significance of the study This study is with the view to enable the government and educational bodies understand the impacts of student's housing on the academic performance of students. The study can therefore assist government and educational institutions in how students from tertiary institutions, but also from primary and secondary institutions, can foster better educational performance. The government can adopt proper housing policies to improve the student’s performance. The study will be a vital addition to the wealth of studies and knowledge conducted in this area and can provide guidance for prospective researchers who desire to carry out analysis on similar topic. This will help to for fend unnecessary repetition of similar studies, laced with similar objectives, within the same scope of the present research work. f) Study area Ibadan, the capital of Oyo State, is strategically located near the forest grassland border of southwest Nigeria, at Latitude 80 31 'North of the Equator and Longitude 40 33' East of the Greenwich Meridian, with an estimated population of approximately three million. It is located at an average altitude of around 500 meters above sea level (Agbola et al, 2001). The city, located about 260 kilometers north of Lagos and 300 km from Abuja, has a humid and dry tropical hinterland climate with an average annual rainfall of less than 1000 m and a mean temperature of 28.80 C during the dry season and 24.50 C during the wet season (Ayeni, 2003). Located on the southern fringe of the savannah region and north of the forest zone, Ibadan serves as the primary transport link between Nigeria's southwest and the north. The city is linked by air, road and rail. Ibadan serves as both economic and administrative centre for the adjoining towns such as Oyo, Lanlate, Eruwa, Saki and others (Agbola et al, 2001). At 5.30 p.m. Sir William Hamilton Fyfe, Vice- Chancellor of the University of Aberdeen and head of a delegation sent by the Inter-University Council for Higher Education in the Colonies on 28 December 1946, pushed his way into the bush a few miles north of Ibadan, Nigeria, through the under-growth, until he reached a clearing where he could see a few yards ahead. He planted his walking stick firmly into the ground and said: "Here shall be the University of Nigeria". This event followed the June 1945 Elliot Commission's recommendation on the development of higher education in West Africa to establish a University College of Nigeria in Ibadan, a second one on the Gold Coast (now Ghana) and to develop the Foura Bay College (Sierra-Leone) into a third one (Ayeni, 2003). It should be recalled that during the Second World War, the British Government had seriously considered the possibility of establishing universities or universities in the Commonwealth and in West Africa, particularly during the Second World War. In 1945, the Asquith and Elliot Commissions, both established in 1943, reported favorably on various aspects of this development. Under a special relationship scheme that began at University College in February 1948, Ibadan produced graduates with University College London degrees. On 17 November 1948, Arthur Creech Jones, then Secretary of State for the Colonies and an influential member of the Elliot Commission, turned the first sod into the permanent site of the University College, which became the Foundation day .The University College of London was later changed to University of Ibadan, having a built-up area around it (Agbola et al, 2001). The built-up area of the campus consists mainly of developments related to the acquisition of the University of Ibadan property in the first phase. This reflects an area of about 605,21 hectares. The northern boundary of this region is defined by the Ona River, bisecting the property of the University of Ibadan. The Ona is the river that was dammed to create the Eleyele Water Works at Eleyele. The development of the area has been gradual and the general outline for development would seem to have been put in place many years ago. What has therefore taken place in more recent times is a process of in-filling of new structures into areas that were not fully or completely developed (Ayeni, 2003). There is a splendid physical layout in the built- up area of the campus and its buildings are very attractive. Maxwell Fry and Jane Drew, who designed all the main buildings in the central area and set the pace for the architectural distinction that characterized all later buildings, were the original architects of the campus (Agbola et al, 2001). Visitors to the campus in the past were familiar with such impressive structures as the Tower Chamber, Trenchard Hall, Senate Chamber, Administration, Faculty of Arts buildings, the Library and the earlier halls of residence and newly constructed ones. Today, new buildings like the Faculty of Education complex, Institute of African Studies, Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry, Faculty of the Social Sciences, Institute of Child Health, Bookshop and the Conference Centre, will in addition to these, favorably strike visitors. There are other structures, such as the Faculty of Science, the office of Dean and the lecture theater on the lakeside, the complex of the Faculty of Technology and the Department of Mathematics and Statistics buildings. There are various residence halls located within the university setting to provide students with accommodation. Of course, there are also the buildings of the newer halls of residence. Each of these has its distinctive feature and appeal to the visitor (Ayeni, 2003). The Effects of Students' Housing on Academic Performance at the University of Ibadan in Nigeria 55 Global Journal of Management and Business Research Volume XXII Issue IV Version I Year 2022 ( ) B © 2022 Global Journals