Oyo
Oyo is a city in Oyo State, Nigeria.
Oyo is a city in Oyo State, Nigeria. It was founded as the capital of the remnant of the historic Oyo empire in the 1830s, and is known to its people as 'New Oyo' to distinguish it from the former capital to the north, 'Old Oyo' (Ọ̀yọ́-Ilé), which had been deserted as a result of the Yoruba Civil Wars. Its inhabitants are mostly of the Yoruba people, and its ruler is the Alaafin of Oyo.
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Worth seeing in and around Oyo
4 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Roman Catholic Diocese of Oyo
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Oyo ) is a Latin suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of Ibadan, Nigeria. It still depends on the missionary Roman Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples.
1 km · diocese of the Catholic Church · Wikipedia - 02Federal College of Education
Federal College of Education, Oyo also known as FCE OYO was established on 5 October 1977, as Federal Advanced Teacher's college. The institution, according to a UNDP/UNESCO 1996 report "...
7.8 km · Nigerian college of Education, Oyo · Wikipedia - 03Ajayi Crowther University
Ajayi Crowther University is a private, faith-based university located in Oyo State, Nigeria. The university is named after Samuel Ajayi Crowther.
2.2 km · private university in Oyo, Nigeria · Wikipedia - 04Emmanuel Alayande College of Education
Emmanuel Alayande University of Education formerly known as Emmanuel Alayande College of Education and Oyo State College of Education also known as EAUED is a state-owned University of Education located in Oyo, Oyo State, Nigeria but recently changed to a university by the Oyo State Governor, Engineer Seyi Makinde in 2022.
4.2 km · College of Education in Oyo, Nigeria · Wikipedia
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Getting to Oyo
- Airports
- General Tunde Idiagbon (ILR), 91 km · Murtala Muhammed (LOS), 156 km · Cotonou Cadjehoun (COO), 237 km
- Ilorin/Ogbomosho → Oyo48 km · quickest by road, 57 min · ₦2,960–3,940
- Lagos → Oyo167 km · quickest by road, 2h 44m · ₦10,600–14,150
- Asaba → Oyo360 km · quickest by road, 7h 12m · ₦26,000–34,650
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No local-transport research exists yet for Oyo
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Oyo. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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Next door to Oyo
Oyo is 39 km from Iseyin, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.