Category: Environment
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Okuku is a principal town of Odo-Otin district in Osun state, a small Yoruba town straggling briefly along the main road from Osogbo to Ofa, close to the semi Savannah end of… read more
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Olumo, meaning, “the lord ends our travail”, is rock in the city of Abeokuta so named because of its usefulness as military fortress to Egba people from 1832 to 1862. The rock,… read more
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The Yoruba News FEB 10th, 1925 ON TOWN PLANNING OPPOURTUNITY Shakespeare was right when he sang: “There is a tide in the affairs of men, if taken at the flow, leads to… read more
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Orile Owu is the deformed town of ancient Owu people, reported as very thickly populated (Omer-Copper estimated a population of about 40,000) and regarded in its day among the important Yoruba settlements.… read more
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Oshodi in Lagos, is a densely populated and centrally located district. Although Oshodi evolved in modern times near the more traditional Mafoluku community, it has in time encompassed Mafoluku itself. Oshodi is… read more
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Epetedo is an historical area in Lagos Island where some of the followers of the deposed and exiled Oba of Lagos, Kosoko, settled in the 1860s. Many of the families living in… read more
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Ikoyi in Lagos is bordered by the Lagos Lagoon, the Cowrie creek and the Macgregor canal that was dug by the colonial British government. The fabulous Banana Island, standing to the West,… read more
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Acanthus montanus is a forest region robust erect plant occurring in humid places mostly on the stream banks.The plant, native to West Africa, has been introduced to the rest of the world for… read more
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Ijebu Igbo is a town in Ogun state and headquarter of Ijebu North Local Government, about 20 kilometers north of Ijebu Ode. Also the site of a state polytechnic named in honor… read more
