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Idanre is an ancient historic town located on a scenic hilly area. The town is located about 20 km southeast of Akure and is one of the major towns in Idanre Local Government Area of Ondo State in Southwest Nigeria. It falls within latitude 9o8’N and latitude 5o5’ of equator and Greenwich meridian respectively.
The headquarters of the local government area is located in the town of Owena.

The hilly town, which is one of the highest Cocoa producers in Nigeria, was formally called “Ufeke(Ife Oke)”. It is a few kilometers away from Akure, the capital of Ondo state and about 335 kilometres from Lagos. Idanre hill is one of the most awesome and beautiful natural landscapes in Ondo State and Nigeria. Added to its beauty which fires human curiosity is the fact that the entire people of Idanre lived on these boulders for almost a millennium.
Since emigration down hill in 1923, the topography, vegetation as well as the fauna and floral life have remained undistributed. However the festivals provides occasions for reconciliation of the low-landers and their natural environments as well as reenactments or .historical episodes in local Idanre history and its wider Yoruba ideology, mythology and confederacy.

There is the Ogun festival, which is partly celebrated on top of the hills during October and Ije festival, which spread over seven days.
Apart from the festivals, which make the site a living tradition, the flora and fauna of the hills are also unique. There is a special species of tailless animal called Hyrax that lives on the rocks which because of hunting are becoming extinct and there are special monkeys sported near Orosun hills. The town is enclosed by hills that rise up to 3,000ft above sea level, and houses a unique ecosystem upon which the cultural landscape is integrated. The hill is also plays host to a group of scientists and field researchers. The site is home to a group of bats and the people hold a unique festival of bats every year. The hill is being used by filmmakers as location for many of their films. In addition, the one and only Nobel Prize Winner for Literature in Africa Professor Wole Soyinka wrote his longest poem titled "Idanre and other Poems".

It has an area of 1,914 km² and a population of 129,024 at the 2006 census.

The Idanre Cultural landscape has been added to the UNESCO World heritage tentative list

DiademSh07:
LOL!
Yet cholera outbreak kills your brethren every year in Anambra. See this: www.channelstv.com/2015/01/27/cholera-outbreak-claims-over-ten-lives-in-anambra/
Ibo no go kill pesin with life!
Imaging him implying that there are epidemic in the Southwest when ibos are worldwide known as dirty people who settles in dirty place like Onitsha, Aba, Alaba, Ladipo etc! No wonder they had cholera!
In fact, the ibo dominated market in Lagos was recently locked because of their failure to engage in environmental sanitation!
Very dirty people!

django1:
I can assure, most mid-income earners don't live in such places, there are tons of settlements outside the city centers where people stay. Those you see living the "ghettos" are really the very poor which in the case of south west is usually located in the heart of the city due to early urbanization (assuming you know what any of that means). The truth at the end of the day is that the whole country is a mess but south west remains the most developed on a whole.

NakedEve:
Lol.
See dis Yelloba man calling me a pawn?
This Fulani slave.

NakedEve:
I can claim North or Middle belt when its most convenient for me

NakedEve:
lol. I am not a Kano Indigene so go and die.
I am a Middlebeltan and my place is so fine thanks to foolish Yeebos who built up our place for us

lolzzzz:
check every chart, owerri is fine than Ibadan, I'm not the person that made the list.

NakedEve:
Lol.
I love when Yoruba and Igbo fight.
It ensures our security down North.
Anyway let me fan the emblems of more hate.

What happens is that the Igbo love shiny things so Yoruba in a bid to make sure IBO don't come leave their place unattractive with brown roofs.

Also Yoruba's r idolaters. Idolatory leads to poverty and backwardness.

Many Yoruba's abroad are scared of witchcraft so they do not come home to build.

Yoruba sells boo-le and tomatoes. how do u expect them to build mansions like Yeeboes who sell heavy tins.


Yoloba, Yolobaa Yolobaaaa!!!

lolzzzz:
how is your osogbo more of a city than owerri? Even Ibadan is not as fine as owerri, check all travel chat and rating, owerri tops Ibadan every time.

kettykin:
Big towns, what made them big, what are their strengths, opportunities, I can see threat of bankruptcy for oshogbo, Ado is quite small while abeokuta is a not bustling with any major industry, businesses or activity, it is majorly a civil service city.

Owerri is a thriving destination for fun seekers, with hotels, eateries clubs than even ph

EVILFOREST:
Standing as mushrooms or Hamlets.
My GREATEST JOY is that I have covered 28 states of the federation.
The South West truly looks DILAPIDATED and Appalling.
I felt like a LOWER ANIMAL for the first time, when I visited IBADAN and Ife.

Am not sentimental about this.
It's the reality.
We can only deceive those who have not traveled across and through major cities.
When I visited the COCOA house and Shoprite at IBADAN, I wept.
Shoprite is badly maintained despite being new.
Cocoa house was like a hmmmmm.
Ife, Ekiti and Oshogbo needs overhauling.
AWOLOWO appears to be the BEST BRAIN that will ever exist in the south west.
I felt his giant strides towards development of Elephants Projects.

lolzzzz:
going by your logic, the only cities in southwest will be probably Lagos and Ibadan because if owerri is not a city then I see no reason why akure, abeakuta, osogbo and ado ekiti should be called cities.

EVILFOREST:
Standing as mushrooms or Hamlets.
My GREATEST JOY is that I have covered 28 states of the federation.
The South West truly looks DILAPIDATED and Appalling.
I felt like a LOWER ANIMAL for the first time, when I visited IBADAN and Ife.

Am not sentimental about this.
It's the reality.
We can only deceive those who have not traveled across and through major cities.
When I visited the COCOA house and Shoprite at IBADAN, I wept.
Shoprite is badly maintained despite being new.
Cocoa house was like a hmmmmm.
Ife, Ekiti and Oshogbo needs overhauling.
AWOLOWO appears to be the BEST BRAIN that will ever exist in the south west.
I felt his giant strides towards development of Elephants Projects.

saxywale:
Some questions for the op, and some other wannabe historian.

Question 1:
Did Oranmiyan (the founder of Oyo) ever reign as an Ooni in Ife after he left a oyo ile, and other smaller settlement to contest for a far more superior throne?
when you answer that question, then I would know what response to give you.

Question 2:
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In 1903, long before the birth of Lt.col General Adeyinka Adebayo or before the formation of Nigeria, why did the other obas reject the Alaafin as judge, but advised the Colonial Governor of a greater king resident in the Yoruba hinterland, to help settle the dispute involving Elepe of Epe and the Akarigbo of Ijebu-Remo?
The Alaafin was side-lined, and the Ooni was invited by the new power, the colonial Governor to the Central Native Authority in Lagos to advise on the dispute between Akarigbo of Ijebu-Remo and Elepe of Epe in Remo over Elepe’s right to wear a beaded crown.

Question 3:
If Alaafin was the youngest of the grandsons of Oduduwa, what makes him superior to the likes of his elder brothers you listed above in your write up i.e Oranmiyan, Olowu, Alaketu, Onisabe, Orangun, Olupopo, Oba Benin?

Question 4:
How can the Alaafin apoint an Ooni, when Oduduwa himself was an Ooni?

Question 5:
Why is the Alaafin bowing, and also collecting his certificate of ''occupancy'' from a lesser king in the picture below.
Note: Oba Lamidi Adeyemi became an Oba in 1970.
Oba Aderemi was governor between 1960 and 1962.

I am glad the new Ooni does not have time for any supremacy battle, and has displayed an high level of maturity.

Udmaster:
LIST OF EZE NRI From 948bc TILL DATE.
- Eri(Father Of Igbos)
948-1041
- Eze Nri Ìfikuánim
1043-1089
- Eze Nri Nàmóke
1090-1158
- Eze Nri Buífè
1159-1259
- Eze Nri Ọmalọ
1260–1299
- Eze Nri Jiọfọ I
1300-1390
- Eze Nri Ọmalonyeso
1391-1464
- Eze Nri Anyamata
1465-1511
- Eze Nri Fenenu
1512-1582
- Eze Nri Agụ
1583-1676
- Eze Nri Apia and Nri–Alike
1677-1700 (Both from Uruọji, Both died the same day)
- Eze Nri Ezimilo
1701-1723
- Eze Nri Èwenétem
1724-1794
- Eze Nri Ènweleána I
1795-1886
-Eze Nri Òbalíke
1889-1936
- Eze Nri Jiọfọ II Taabansi Udene
1937-1987
- Eze Nri Ènweleána II Obidiegwu Onyeso(MFR)
1988-current.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eze_Nri_%E1%BB%8Cmalonyeso

lalasticlala:
Pls, Put the direct link to the exact page..

tomzman:
You couldn't have said it any better.


These people are more stupid than I thought. I wonder how a sane person would pay even a kobo for the passport of a nonexistent nation.

tonychristopher:
But why would u call ugbodo Yoruba.does that sound Yoruba to u..they don't bear Yoruba names their culture and names igbo

Just go call them your ba and see

Just few days ago ...femi was telling me how he wish he is igbo

tonychristopher:
Don't make that mistake to go there and call em Yoruba ...they will Lynch u

They have been igbonized

authority2006:
[b][/b] Trash, meant for dustbin.

JaredNomak:
Interesting, Dubai extension.

B69U:
ANYBODY THAT THINK IGBOS WILL DIE WITHOUT TRADING IN LAGOS SHOULD UNDERSTAND THAT IT IS LAGOS THAT WILL DIE WITHOUT IGBOS TRADERS.
IF YOU DOUBT THAT, LET ALL THOSE TRADERS RELOCATE TO THE EAST FIRST.
LAGOS STATE GOV SHOULD KNOW THAT THEY DID NOT GIVE ANYBODY MONEY TO START ANY BUSINESS.
IGBOS ARE NOT BEGGARS AND NOT BEGGING ANYBODY TO ALLOW THEM TRADE IN LAGOS.
IF EVERYBODY IS TIRED OF ONE NIGERIA, LET US DIVIDE PEACEFULLY SO EVERYBODY CAN BE SATISFIED.