Arepo is a small community in the heart of Ogun State. And with a popular density of approximately 1million persons.

The community is situated in Obafemi Owode local Government Area of Ogun State, Nigeria.

And in most cases, the Arepo community is often referred to as a suburb of Lagos,New Lagos and in many tongues it is simply Magodo 3.

This positive and vibrant community has a large inhabitants of residential properties mixed with neighborhood commercial centers including shopping centres, a central market, and places of worship for both the Christian and Muslim faiths.

Many believe that Arepo came into the consciousness of real estate property developers when the administration of Chief Olusegun Osoba as the Executive Governor of Ogun state set up the Journalist Estate Phase 1 for journalists across Nigeria and this has gone on to grow to include other estates including VOERA Estate (Orange Estate), Journalist Estate Phase 2, PraiseHill Estate, Ya-Wahab Estate, and many others.

There is no doubt that journalists have attracted development to Arepo as a whole.

First, it brought the obscure village to limelight; the value of the land has shot up astronomically. Many important government officials came to pay homage: Governors, ministers, former President Olusegun Obasanjo, industry chieftains, to mention a few.

The questions begging for answer is who are Areporians, what's there origin, dominant language and ancestry mythologies?

Based on our findings....

In terms of ethnic composition, the Ethnographical composition of the Arepo's Culture is predominantly an extension of the Egba speaking people of Yoruba and by large the Afro-Asiatic speaking people of Africa.

The traditional Head of Arepo community is Oba Solomon Atanda Oyebi, who is the first Olu of Arepo.

As natives of Africa, the Arepo people are predominantly reconned with by their industrial and peace loving nature little wonders this small town has produced lots of industrious sons and daughters.

To be continue...

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Are you a foreigner? Your choice of words for identity makes me ask: Africans (Yoruba is enough. If anybody in this world doesn't know of Yoruba s/he should go and research).

Again, Afro-Asian? Nothing concerns Yoruba with Asia in terms of identity.

Greater Lagos must not necessarily be limited to Lagos' political boundary.

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