Iwo

Iwo is a city in Osun State, southwestern Nigeria, and an old Yoruba kingdom. Its people, like other Yoruba peoples, are believed to have migrated from Ile-Ife in about the eleventh century. The city was once part of the old Oyo State before becoming one of the major townships of Osun State, and its paramount ruler is the Oluwo of Iwoland. The Wikipedia article gives the central city and local government a population of 191,348 over 245 square kilometres, while GeoNames lists the town of Iwo, the seat of its local government area, with 250,443 people. The article says the people of Iwo were Muslim as early as 1655, when the first mosque in Yorubaland was built, and that the first Shariah court in Nigeria was established in Iwo. It is also a centre of education: Baptist missionaries established schools and the old Baptist College, whose site is now Bowen University, and the city has several other colleges and a polytechnic. The city is the home of Reality Television Service, described as the first state television station in Nigeria. Iwo has a tropical wet and dry or savanna climate.