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About Otan Ayegbaju
Ota (; alternatively spelled Otta and also named Sango-Ota) is a city in Ogun State, Nigeria with an estimated 163,783 residents. Ota is the capital of the Ado–Odo/Ota Local Government Area and is part of Metropolitan Lagos. The traditional leader of Ota is the Olota of Ota, Oba Adeyemi AbdulKabir Obalanlege. Historically, Ota is the capital of the Awori Yoruba tribe.
From the Wikipedia article Ota, Ogun State (this version), under CC BY-SA 4.0.
History
Awori people, a subgroup of Yoruba people, are the first settlers of Ota. In Awori and other Yoruba traditions, the kingdom of Ota is several millennia old and the oldest in Awori land, and in some Yoruba traditions, it is one of the oldest kingdoms in Yoruba land.
Ota's existence dates back to at least the period of Orunmila (a contemporaneous with the Orunmila) as an established and organized human habitation or community with Obaship institution that no one could ascribe any specific date thus since the BC era. There were very few settlements then what is known as Yorubaland today. Apart from Ile-ife, the first place or source, Ota is a very, very ancient city ranking behind Ile-Ife only that Orunmila first visited. Other few places Orunmila visited after Ota, for one reason or the other, included Ado-Ekiti, Irun Akoko, Ilawe and Ifon. No doubt, Orunmila visited Ota at least on three occasions as confirmed by Ifa-Irete Olota (Owonrin) Corpus and Odu Osa Meji (Odu Eleye).
From the History section of Ota, Ogun State on Wikipedia, under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Getting there and nearby towns
Ilorin International Airport (ILR) is the nearest airport with scheduled flights listed in OpenStreetMap, 64 km away.
- Oyan 12 km north, about 12 min by car
- Ikirun 14 km west, about 14 min by car
- Ila Orangun 15 km northeast, about 15 min by car
- Oke Mesi 20 km southeast, about 20 min by car
- Osogbo 32 km southwest, about 32 min by car
- Ede 45 km southwest, about 45 min by car
- Ile-Ife 58 km southwest, about 58 min by car
- Ado-Ekiti 60 km southeast, about 1 h by car
- Ilorin 67 km northwest, about 1 h by car
- Akure 89 km southeast, about 1 h 30 min by car
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