Ikire

Ikire is a town in Osun State in south-western Nigeria and the headquarters of Irewole Local Government Area. It is a collecting point for local cash crops such as cocoa, palm oil and kernels, and a market where yams, maize, cassava, palm produce, cotton and kola nuts are sold. Local tradition credits the founding of the township to Prince Akinere, a renowned elephant hunter. The town lies about 33 kilometres (20.7 miles) from the Ibadan-Ife expressway, at roughly 7 degrees 25 minutes north and 4 degrees 13 minutes east, in an area of evergreen rainforest whose climate favours arable and cash crops and the rearing of cattle and other animals. Ikire has many secondary schools and hosts the Ikire campus of the College of Humanities and Culture of Osun State University.