Omi-Osun ruins

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The Omi-Ọsun ruins is a series of relics of an ancient settlement by of the Oke-Ila Orangun kingdom, located along the Omi-Ọsun river in southwestern Nigeria. The ruins consist of remnants of ancient walls, potsherds, and other relics. The site complex is currently overgrown with thicket but large portions are being used as farmland. Efforts have, since the late 1970's, been made to enlighten the paramount ruler and the local population to protect the remaining ruins from destruction by farming activity, buildings and road construction. These efforts have received an authoritatitive boost when the main advocate, a geologist/geophysicist with archaeological interests, was installed into the royal dynastic title of Oba'lumo which privided increased opportunities to interact with the royal councils of the Orangun, the paramount king.

Omi-Ọsun was occupied by the Oke-Ila Orangun kingdom during the migrations of earlier centuries following the division of the ancient kingdom of Ila-Yara into the Oke-Ila Orangun and Ila Orangun factions, and their departure from the mother city as separate and independent kingdoms.

Omi-Ọsun ruins is currently attracting interest of archeologists reconstructing the ancient history of the region's ancient settlements and the development of the Igbomina of north central Yoruba.

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