Epe

Epe is a city and Local Government Area in Lagos State, Nigeria, on the north side of the Lekki Lagoon and about 90 km from Ibadan. The 2006 census counted about 181,409 people there. The town holds two major communities, Eko Epe and Ijebu Epe, each with its own monarch, and the paramount ruler is the Oloja of Epeland, who also chairs the obas and chiefs of the Epe division. Festivals celebrated in Epe include the Kayo-kayo Festival, Ebi Day, Ojude-Oba and Epe Day. A road junction where the Lekki-Epe Expressway enters the town carries a sculpture of two giant fish put up by the Lagos State Government, and several higher institutions, among them Lagos State University and Yaba College of Technology, have campuses in the area. Epe is also a collecting point for fish, cassava, maize, coconuts, cocoa, palm produce, rubber and firewood sent on to Lagos.