Igbo-Ora

Igbo-Ora is a town in Oyo State in south-western Nigeria, about 80 kilometres north of Lagos, and it is the headquarters of the Ibarapa Central local government area, which it shares with the neighbouring community of Idere. It is widely known as the Twin Capital of the World because an unusually large number of twins are born in the region, a pattern that researchers have linked to local diet, in particular a chemical found in yam peelings, though no direct link has been proven and genetics may also play a part. The town is the seat of the Oyo State College of Agriculture and Technology, and its economy rests mainly on farming, including the mechanised Obasanjo Farms, with subsistence agriculture, hunting, banking and public sector work alongside. Local tradition holds that the town was founded by Obe Alade, a descendant of the Alaafin of Oyo, who moved through three settlement sites before the present one, and the community is today an association of autonomous towns, each with its own traditional head under the Olu of Igbo-Ora. The cited article gives a 2006 population of about 72,207.