located in South-West Nigeria, close to the A121 highway. The city is located 110 km by road north-east of Lagos; it is within 100 km of the Atlantic Ocean in the eastern part of Ogun State and possesses a warm tropical climate.
With an estimated population of 222,653 (2007), Ijebu-Ode
has 39 Public Primary Schools, 14 Public Junior Secondary school, 13 public
Senior Secondary Schools, 110 approved Private Nursery and Primary Schools and
22 approved Private Secondary Schools. It
is the second largest city in Ogun State after Abeokuta.
Since pre-colonial times it has been the capital of the Ijebu
kingdom.
The LGA has an area of 192 km² and a population of
154,032 at the 2006 census.
The postal code of
the area is 120.
The largest city inhabited by the Ijebus,
a sub-group of the Yoruba ethnic
group who speak the Ijebu dialect of Yoruba, it is historically and culturally
the headquarters of Ijebuland. Today, however, due to migration, civilisation
and inter-tribal marriage, Ijebu-Ode is now composed of a mixed people who
majorly speak the general Yoruba language, as opposed to the local dialect.
The ruler of Ijebu Kingdom, Oba S.K. Sikiru Kayode Adetona is known as the Awujale of
Ijebuland resides in Ijebu-Ode. He
is regarded as the paramount ruler of Ijebu land, encompassing every town that
is originally an Ijebu domain, including Ago-Iwoye, Ijebu-Igbo, Oru, Awa, Remo,
Ijebu-Isiwo,Odogbolu, Aiyepe, Epe, and other Ijebu territories. The Awujale is
highly revered by natives and residents of these towns.
Ijebu Ode has a local television station affiliated with
the government's NTA network and is the trade center of a
farming region where yam, cassava, grain, tobacco and cotton are
grown.
Adjacent to Ijebu Ode are several smaller towns and
villages. They are mostly referred to as Egure "this way to"; some of
them include Odo-Agamegi, Ogbo, Italupe (a neighbourhood within Ijebu-Ode),
Ososa, Imomo, Imawen, Odo Ogbun, Apa(Mesan), Okelamuren, Abapawa, Erunwon,
Apunren, Isonyin, Imoru, Oke-Eri, Imagbon, Ijebu-Isiwo,
Odo-lewu, Odo-Arawa, Idowa, Iworo, Ala, Atiba and Ibefun among others.
Ijebu-Ode is made up of three parts - Iwade, Ijasi and Porogun. Italupe is a
ward in Iwade, not an Egure of Ijebu Ode.
OJUDE OBA FESTIVAL
Ojude Oba is a Yoruba festival held
in Ijebu Ode, a town in Ogun State, Southwestern Nigeria. It is held annually the third day after Eid al-Kabir. The festival began over
100 years ago. Today, the festival is usually attended by over 250000 people
across the six geopolitical zones of Nigeria. The festival is often sponsored by the incumbent
Awujale, the people of Ijebu-Ode, individuals and corporate organizations.
SOME NOTABLE PERSON INCLUDES:
·
Chief Victor Olabisi Onabanjo : Former Governor of
Ogun state between 1979-1983
·
Professor Justus A. Sokefun: Professor and Dean of Law, National Open University of Nigeria;
founder, Beulah Ministries; private legal practitioner and prolific author.
·
Professor Adebayo Adedeji, CFR, Nigerian
politician.
·
Kola Onadipe (1922–1988),
Nigerian children's author.
·
Sunday Adelaja, the founder and senior pastor
of the Embassy of God church in Kiev
·
Harold Olusegun Demuren, Aeronautical Engineer,
Director General of Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority.
·
Alhaji Hassan Namaco, First Rental Owner In Nigeria.
·
Adebayo Onanuga, Co-Founder and MD of ICNL, publishers of
The News Magazine and PM News
·
Ladi Balogun Group
Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer First City Group.
·
Subomi Balogun Founder First City Group.
·
Chief Sunny KUKU - Co- founder Eko hospital.
·
Abayomi Rotimi Mighty African Youth Spokesperson at the OAU Summit
at age 16 and legend of youth development in Nigeria.
·
Oluwatosin Onanuga - CEO of mobileXcetera, a leading VAS and
Mobile Applications Development Company to run first cross-network service in
Nigeria
·
Prof. Lasun Gbadamosi - Professor of Educational Planning
& Policy at Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago-Iwoye in
Nigeria.
·
Pastor Enoch O Badamosi - Ex- Head of Legal Lagos State
Task Force, RCCG Pastor,
U.S.A. based Administrator,LL.M Widener Law School,DE, PhD Law & Public
Policy candidate at Walden,MN
·
Chief Bayo Kuku: Ogbeni Oja of Ijebu Ode, Bobajiro of
Ijebuland. He was a former President, Nigeria Stock Exchange (NSE), former Vice
Chairman, Mobil Oil Nigeria Ltd, former board member, FBN Merchant Bank and
former board member, NNPC.
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