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Ile Oluji-Okeigbo

LGA and town in Ondo State, Nigeria

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ5997398 ↗
Source-derived summary

Ile Oluji-Okeigbo is a town and Local Government Area in Ondo State, Nigeria. Its headquarters are in the town of Ile Oluji.

The postal code of the area is 351.

Background

Ile-Oluji is a town in Ondo State, Nigeria. The town serves as the headquarters of Ile-Oluji Okeigbo Local Government. The indigenes are Yoruba people whose progenitor was the legendary Oduduwa.

The monarch of the kingdom is known as the Jegun of Ile-Oluji. Its present monarch is HRM Oba (Dr) Oluwole Olufaderin Adetimehin, FIIN, FCIB, Jimoko II, a former President of the Chartered Insurance Institute of Nigeria who was crowned on 10 June 2016

Economy

Ile-Oluji is an agrarian town. It is one of the largest producers and exporters of cocoa production in Nigeria. cassava, yam, maize and oil Palm are other major crops cultivated by farmers in the town.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Ile Oluji-Okeigbo” as lGA and town in Ondo State, Nigeria. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Oluji-Okeigbo, town and Ondo.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2016—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Oluji-Okeigbo, town and Ondo providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Ile Oluji-Okeigbo”, the useful work is to connect “lGA and town in Ondo State, Nigeria” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 22, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5997398. Authority coordinates are 7.166, 4.724. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2016.

Critical limits

Architectural summaries often privilege surviving fabric and can understate demolished phases, contested use or displaced communities. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

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  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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This entry incorporates text from “Ile Oluji-Okeigbo” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.