South West
Ogun State
Capital: Abeokuta · Created 1976 · ≈6.4 million · Area 16,762 km²
Population
≈6.4 million
Size
16,762 km²
Capital
Abeokuta
Year created
1976
Geopolitical zone
South West
Languages
Yoruba (Egba, Ijebu, Egbado, Awori, Remo) · English
Ethnic groups
- Yoruba (majority — Egba, Ijebu, Yewa/Egbado, Awori, Remo)
Natural resources
- Limestone (Nigeria's cement heart)
- Kaolin
- Feldspar
- Silica sand
- Phosphate
Signature foods
- Iyan with efo riro
- Amala with gbegiri
- Ikokore (yam pottage)
- Ekuru
- Moin moin elede
Notable people
- Wole Soyinka (Nobel Laureate)
- Olusegun Obasanjo (former President)
- Chief M.K.O. Abiola (June 12 hero)
- Femi Kuti (musician)
- Aliko Dangote (partly Egba heritage)
- Fela Anikulapo-Kuti (family from Ogun)
Culture, values & festivals
- Egungun masquerade festival
- Ojude Oba (Ijebu Muslim festival with Regberegbe age-grades)
- Lisabi festival (Egba)
- Home to Nigeria's cement, biscuit, and construction industries
Top places to visit in Ogun
- 1
Olumo Rock, Abeokuta
Historic granite fortress used during 19th-century Egba wars.
- 2
Ijebu-Ode Grand Mosque & Ojude Oba
Annual mass-scale festival of the Awujale's subjects.
- 3
Adire Textile Market, Itoku
Traditional indigo-dyed cloth in Abeokuta.
- 4
Idanre-linked Sungbo's Eredo
Ancient earthworks and moat system — 160 km long, pre-1000 CE.
- 5
Ogun River Rapids
Rapids around Abeokuta, popular for photography.
About the South West
Ekiti, Lagos, Ogun, Ondo, Osun, Oyo. Yoruba homeland, commercial capital, oldest universities.