Iba is a community in the Ifelodun Local Government Area of Ọṣun State, Nigeria.

Location

Iba is in the Ifelodun Local Government Area in the northeast of Ọṣun State a few kilometers northeast of

Ikirun Ikirun is a town in Osun State, Nigeria. It is the headquarters of the Ifelodun Local Government Area. It is an historical city that derived its name from the first ruler of the town called Akinorun. Basetan was the first settler and founder ...

, east of

Inisa Inisa is a city in Osun State in the south-western Nigeria. It is in the Yoruba cultural and ethnic region of the country, and is a trading center for cocoa and other agricultural products grown in the surrounding area. Its population as of 2007 w ...

and southeast of Okuku.

History

The

Jalumi War The Jalumi War, also called the Battle of Ikirun, was a battle that took place on 1 November 1878 in the north east of present-day Osun State, Nigeria. It was part of the larger conflict named the Ibadan War. The forces of Ibadan victorious in det ...

of 1 November 1878 took place in the hilly country of the northeast of Osun State in the area that includes Ikirun, Iba, Inisa, Okuku and

Eko-Ende Eko-Ende (or Eko Ende, Eko-Ende) is a community in the Ifelodun Local Government Area of Ọṣun State, Nigeria. Location Eko-Ende has a tropical climate, with an average temperature of . Average annual rainfall is , with peaks in July and Se ...

. It was one of the series of civil wars in Yorubaland between 1793 and 1893. The town is mentioned in a report of 1911 of a visit by the resident Captain

Cyril Hammond Elgee Cyril Hammond Elgee (18 October 1871 – 17 August 1917) was a British colonial administrator in Nigeria, based in Ibadan at the time when the basic colonial institutions were being established. During World War I (1914–18) he was Acting Commi ...

and the Ibadan chiefs to hear a boundary dispute between Iba and nearby Okuku. The dispute was unresolved until the late 1930s. The ruling house of Iba claims that they came from Ife long before the people of Ikuku came to the region. In 2011, a dispute over which ruling house should become the next traditional ruler, or Eburu of Iba, became a subject of litigation after the demise of Oba Ibrahim Bamigbade. Olugbuyi ruling house claimed that the title should alternate between the Olugbuyi and Okiti ruling houses, and that the Ijadunoye and Alamu were families in the Okiti ruling house. Alamu and Ijadunoye ruling houses claimed that the Ijadunoye and Alamu were separate ruling houses and there had never been any Okiti ruling house in Iba history, and the stool should rotate to them too. in 2014, Justice Afolabi of High Court of Osogbo ruled in favor of Alamu Ruling House and ordered the installation of Prof. Adekunle Okunoye of Alamu Ruling House having been duly nominated by his ruling house and unanimously approved by the kingmakers.

Facilities

The community has a primary health care center. St. Peter's Anglican church is located in Iba, in the Diocese of Osun of the

Church of Nigeria The Church of Nigeria is the Anglicanism, Anglican Church body, church in Nigeria. It is the second-largest Province (Anglican), province in the Anglican Communion, as measured by baptised membership (not by attendance), after the Church of Englan ...

. The church was founded in 1903 by the missionary John Mackay. The Iba MicroFinance Bank, formerly the Iba Community Bank, was registered in February 2008. In 2013 a plan to train youth was announced, with a training center in Iba. Courses would include fashion design, hairdressing, shoe making, barbering, event decorating and soap making.

References

Citations Sources * * * * * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Iba Populated places in Osun State