Urban land uses had been increasingly subjected to changes of different forms, sorts and
types since urban explosion of the 1970s. People move to cities en-mass from the rural hinterland to
the cities in anticipations to benefit from urban economy. However most Nigerian cities are not
planned and thus are not prepared fro the surge in urban explosion that resulted from the rural urban
migration and the biological growth that made most Nigerian cities what they are today- a decadence
of humanity. The changes in these residential land uses in urban area are subject of research discourse
for a long time. This paper seeks to evaluate urban temporal changes in a typical traditional settlement
in Nigeria-Ibadan. The techniques of remote sensing to evaluate land use land cover changes was
employed and a projection into 2023 was done using marcov change model. The density classification
and the change rate were utilized in correlation analysis to identify the relationship between the density
types at the base year with the rate of change in the study area. It was observed that there are
considerable dynamic changes in Ibadan metropolis and the major contributor to changes is the vegetal
cover, low density and sprawl development. There are growths by fission within n even the highdensity
areas and the catchments area for rivers are also location for urban spatial growth or change.
The paper concludes by suggesting ways to tame haphazard urban growth that characterizes Ibadan
and major urban settlement in Nigeria.