Sepeteri is the biggest town in the

Saki East Saki East is a Local Government Area in Oyo State, Nigeria. Its headquarters are in the town of Ago-Amodu. It has an area of 1,569 km and a population of 110,223 at the 2006 census. The postal code of the area is 203. Saki East Local Gove ...

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of Oke-Ogun

Oyo State Oyo State is an inland state in southwestern Nigeria. Its capital is Ibadan, the third most populous city in the country and formerly the second most populous city in Africa. Oyo State is bordered to the north by Kwara State, to the east by Osun ...

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. The Yoruba people of Sepeteri are related with fon of dahomey and Ifon in

Osun State Osun State (; yo, Ìpínlẹ̀ Ọ̀ṣun), occasionally known as the State of Osun by the state government, is a state in southwestern Nigeria; bounded to the east by Ekiti and Ondo states, to the north by Kwara State, to the south by Ogun S ...

their crownship is Obatala, Obalufon lineage under Oyo Empire. Sepeteri is located between Igboho, Ago-amodu and Oje Owode (formerly called "Aha") to Shaki, Ago-Are and Iseyin.

Description

The title of oba of Sepeteri is Obalufon of Sepeteri. The ruling families are Daodus, Baloguns and Ogboros.Oyo state Sepeteri is located in between Shaki and Igboho in the Oke-Ogun area, Oyo North Senatorial District of the state of Oyo in Yoruba country. Oke-Ogun comprises ten local governments, excluding Ogbomoso. Oke-Ogun area is situated between Oyo and the present

Kwara state Kwara State ( yo, Ìpínlẹ̀ Kwárà), is a state in Western Nigeria, bordered to the east by Kogi State, to the north by Niger state, and to the south by Ekiti, Osun, and Oyo states, while its western border makes up part of the internation ...

. The area starts from Iseyin and ends in Bakase, a small town along the boundary of Oyo State and Kwara State.

People

The town is homogeneous comprising in the main, people belonging to the Yoruba

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who speak the

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, although minority groups from elsewhere in Nigeria and Africa are represented. Like all other Yorubas, they are descendants from Oduduwa. The

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system is important to the Yoruba culture and traditional beliefs.

Economy

There is mineral availability in the area, such as

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columbite Columbite, also called niobite, niobite-tantalite and columbate [], is a black mineral group that is an ore of niobium. It has a submetallic Lustre (mineralogy), luster and a high density and is a niobate of iron and manganese. This mineral group ...

cassiterite Cassiterite is a tin oxide mineral, SnO2. It is generally opaque, but it is translucent in thin crystals. Its luster and multiple crystal faces produce a desirable gem. Cassiterite was the chief tin ore throughout ancient history and remains t ...

kaolin Kaolinite ( ) is a clay mineral, with the chemical composition Al2 Si2 O5( OH)4. It is an important industrial mineral. It is a layered silicate mineral, with one tetrahedral sheet of silica () linked through oxygen atoms to one octahedral ...

, and

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. The Oyo State Government is setting up a lapidary to process the minerals and an international gem stone market in the city of

Ibadan Ibadan (, ; ) is the capital and most populous city of Oyo State, in Nigeria. It is the third-largest city by population in Nigeria after Lagos and Kano, with a total population of 3,649,000 as of 2021, and over 6 million people within its me ...

where miners can market their wares. The town has tourism potential, such as

Old Oyo National park Old Oyo National Park is one of the national parks of Nigeria, located across northern Oyo State and southern Kwara State, Nigeria. The park is 2,512 km2 of land in northern Oyo state, south west Nigeria, at latitude 8° 15’ and 9° 00’N ...

, Iyemoja Shrine, Fishing festival, Old mining sites. Agriculture is the major industry in Sepeteri. Apart from the primary roles of providing food and shelter, employment, industrial raw materials, it remains an important source of revenue in the local Government. The climate favours the growth of food crops like yam, cassava, millet, maize, fruits, rice and plantains.

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s such as citrus, tobacco and timber also abound in the state.

References

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