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Oyo [1] is a city in Oyo State, Nigeria.It was founded as the capital of the remnant of the historic Oyo empire in the 1830s, and is known to its people as 'New Oyo' (Ọ̀yọ́ Àtìbà) to distinguish it from the former capital to the north, 'Old Oyo' (Ọ̀yọ́-Ilé), which had been deserted as a result of the Yoruba Revolutionary Wars.
Oyo is a state in southwestern Nigeria.Its capital is Ibadan, the third most populous city in the country and formerly the second most populous city in Africa. [8] Oyo State is bordered to the north by Kwara State for 337 km, to the southeast by Osun State for 187 km, partly across the River Osun, and to the south by Ogun State, and to the west by the Republic of Benin for 98 km.
The Old Oyo National Park is one of the national parks of Nigeria, located across northern Oyo State and southern Kwara State, Nigeria. [1] The park is 2,512 km 2 of land in northern Oyo state, south west Nigeria, at latitude 8° 15’ and 9° 00’N and longitude 3° 35’ and 4° 42’ E. [2] The location has inevitably placed the park at a vantage position of abundance land area as well as ...
The Oyo Empire was a Yoruba empire in West Africa.It was located in present-day southern Benin and western Nigeria (including the South West zone and the western half of the North Central zone).
Old Oyo, also known as Oyo-Ile, Katunga, Oyo-Oro, and Eyo is the site of a ruined medieval city that was once the capital [1] of the Oyo Empire in what is now modern-day Nigeria. It has been abandoned since 1835. It was a major cultural and political center of West Africa during the empire's height. [2]
The discovery of the forest of horror generated controversy throughout Nigeria. [9] There was a concern on the link between the management (kidnappers and ritualist) of the horror forest and some top government officials and notable politicians in the state but there seems to be no clear evidence to establish that fact. [10]
Ibadan (UK: / ɪ ˈ b æ d ən /, US: / ɪ ˈ b ɑː d ən /; [5] Yoruba: Ìbàdàn) is the capital and most populous city of Oyo State, in Nigeria.It is the third-largest city by population in Nigeria after Lagos and Kano, with a total population of 3,649,000 as of 2021, and nearly 4 million within its metropolitan area.
In Oyo State, for example, the prohibition of tribal marks is an integral part of the state Child Rights Law, a law that imposes a fine or one-month imprisonment or both for violation. [20] According to the law, "No person shall tattoo or make a skin mark or cause any tattoo/skin mark to be made on a child". [ 21 ]