Ijebu Igbo
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Ijebu Igbo is a town in Ogun State, Nigeria. It is approximately a 15-minute drive north of Ijebu Ode.
Ijebu Igbo has a king for each of its five clans(oke sopen, ojowo, atikori, oke agbo and japara) with the head of the Okesopin clan as the overall head and next to the Orimolusi of Ijebu Igbo.
The town's primary economic activity is lumber, cocoa and other mineral resources and is home to many saw mills.
History has it that the founder, Onayelu, was a great hunter who hunted the Northern parts of Ijebu Ode, his father's kingdom. Following the sudden demise of his father and the subsequent controversial ascension of the throne by his younger brother while away hunting, he decided to migrate from Ijebu Ode to settle permanently on the large expanse of land where he had been hunting and known today as Ijebu Igbo.
Thus Ijebu Igbo has the largest land mass of all Ijebus. It extends to, and has three important boundary points at Ibadan, Ikire, and Ondo.
Like all other Ijebus, the people of Ijebu Igbo speak the Ijebu dialect that is distinct from and similar to the Yoruba language. Ijebu Igbo boasts of one the the foremost secondary schools in Nigeria, the Molusi College.
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