Lisa is a small
village
A village is a human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Although villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban v ...
located in
Ifo
Ifo or IFO may refer to:
Places
* Ifo, Ogun State, a local government area in Ogun State, Nigeria
* Ivano-Frankivsk International Airport in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine, their IATA airport code
* Ifo Refugee Camp, UNHCR refugee camp in Kenya
* If ...
Local Government Area
A local government area (LGA) is an administrative division of a country that a local government is responsible for. The size of an LGA varies by country but it is generally a subdivision of a federated state, state, province, division (politica ...
of
Ogun State
Ogun State is a state in southwestern Nigeria. It is bordered to the south by Lagos State and the Bight of Benin, to the east by Ondo State, and to the north by Oyo and Osun states while its western border forms part of the national borde ...
,
Nigeria
Nigeria, officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a country in West Africa. It is situated between the Sahel to the north and the Gulf of Guinea in the Atlantic Ocean to the south. It covers an area of . With Demographics of Nigeria, ...
. Occupied immensely by the
Egba people
The Egba people are a subgroup of the Yoruba people, an ethnic group of western Nigeria, a majority of whom are from the central part of Ogun State, that is Ogun Central Senatorial District.
Ogun Central Senatorial District comprises six local ...
, the village rely mainly on farming as a means of survival. On 22 October 2005, Lisa came into worldwide recognition after a
Boeing 737-200
The Boeing 737 is an American narrow-body aircraft produced by Boeing at its Renton factory in Washington.
Developed to supplement the Boeing 727 on short and thin routes, the twinjet retained the 707 fuselage width and six abreast seating ...
aircraft crashed in the village
killing all 117 people on board.
References
Populated places in Ogun State
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