Ondo West is a Local Government Area in

Ondo State Ondo State ( yo, Ìpínlẹ̀ Oǹdó) is a state in southwestern Nigeria. It was created on 3 February 1976 from the former Western State. It borders Ekiti State to the north, Kogi State to the northeast, Edo State to the east, Delta State to ...

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. Its headquarters are in the town of Ondo. It has an area of 970 km and a population of 283,672 at the 2006

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. The

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of the area is 351. There are four higher institutions in Ondo West: Adeyemi College of Education established in 1964 by the Federal Government of Nigeria and recently upgraded to a Federal University of

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; National Institute for Educational Planning and Administration (NIEPA) established in 1992 by the Federal Government; Wesley University established in 2008 by the Methodist Church,

; and the University of Medical Sciences, Ondo established by the Ondo State Government in 2015 to train medical and health professionals.

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Local Government Areas in Ondo State {{OndoNG-geo-stub