Odigbo is a

Local Government Area A local government area (LGA) is an administrative division of a country that a local government is responsible for. The size of an LGA varies by country but it is generally a subdivision of a federated state, state, province, division (politica ...

in Ondo State, Nigeria. Its headquarters are in the town of Ore. It has an area of and a population of 230,351 at the 2006 census. The current census as of 2020 is over 600,000 as Ore Town continue to attract new inhabitants from every part of the country. The people of Odigbo local government are from the Yoruba lineage and the Furupagha-Ijaws that constituted the Ebijaw ward. These people include The Odigbos, Ayesan, Araromi Obus and Ajue who largely observe similar customs and uphold the same traditional as other Yorubas while the Ijaws are the Eluju-Iyaradina, Ebijaw, Ebijaw Zion,Taribor, Gbunuwei, Ukuregbene, Abadigbene. The people of odigbo local government speak a local dialect close to the ondos. These people cover the towns and the villages of Ore town, Agbabu, Lafe, Modebiayo, Isheba, Oke-Oluwa, Ayetedo, Ago Alaye, Ajebamidele, Ajebambo, Kajola, Ayesan, Oniparaga, Imorun, Laleipa, Okefara, Ayetoro, Sidigi, Oke-Ojakoparun, Lokuta, Araromi-Ayesan oil palm estate, Basola, Agirifon, Adewinle, Aiyetimbo, Koseru, Omowole, Onipetesi, Mile 49, Labon, Akinseye, Temidire, Sokoto, Bolorunduro, Fesojoye,

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village, Ajibodu. The odigbo local government people share boundary with the Ondos in the north, the Ikales in the east, the Ijebus of Ogun State in the

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and

Osun State Osun (; ), is a state in southwestern Nigeria; bounded to the east by Ekiti and Ondo states for 84 km and for 78 km respectively, to the north by Kwara State for 73 km, to the south by Ogun State for 84 km and to the wes ...

in the

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. Several villages in Odigbo

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are inhabited by non-indigenes like people from Oyo and

s as well as the Ikale people of

Irele Irele is a local government area in Ondo State, Nigeria. Its headquarters are in the town of Ode-Irele. It was originally part of the old Ikale LGA, which was split into Irele and Okitipupa LGAs. It has an area of and had a population of 14 ...

and

Okitipupa Okitipupa is in Nigeria and part of the Yoruba tribe, Ikale-speaking nation in Ondo State. Okitipupa Government headquarter is located in Okitipupa Major town with a university, Ondo State University of Science and Technology, Olusegun Agag ...

local government areas of

Ondo state Ondo () is a States of Nigeria, state in Points of the compass, southwestern Nigeria. It was created on 3 February 1976 from the former Western State (Nigeria), Western State. Ondo borders Ekiti State to the north, Kogi State to the northeast fo ...

. The biggest town of Odigbo local Government is Ore Town, this town is a major nodal town on one of the busiest highways in the country, the Shagamu-Ore-Benin Expressway. The Local Government Office is situated in Ore. People from every part of the country live in Ore Town due to its nodal and commercial nature. The

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of the area is 350.

History

Odigbo local government has two major kingdoms; Odigbo kingdom and Araromi-Obu kingdom. The paramount ruler of Odigbo kingdom is HRM the Orunja of Odigbo while the paramount ruler of Araromi-Obu kingdom is the HRM, the Ajobu of Araromi-Obu. The Major towns in Odigbo local government are Araromi-Obu, Odigbo, Ajue, Ore, etc. Many parts of Odigbo local government are inhabited by non-indigenes like people from Oyo and Osun States and some parts are occupied by the Ikale people of Okitipupa and Irele local government areas of Ondo State. Odigbo is the owner of the bitumen, stated in ondo state.

Notable people

Omogboye Saheed Ayodeji - Nigerian real estate entrepreneur

References

Local Government Areas in Ondo State {{OndoNG-geo-stub