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“ÌLú Àjé” – A Small Town In Oyo State Known As The Town Of Witches And How The Name Was Derived

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On your journey to Oyo, right below Fiditi, there is a little...

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On your journey to Oyo, right below Fiditi, there is a little town named “Ilu Aje.” Which basically translates to “Witch Town.” Ilu Aje is a rather significant rural hamlet with huge fields located between the cities of Ilora and Jobele in Oyo State’s Afijio
Local Government Area. “Ilu Aje” literally means “a town of fortune in sales or business transactions.”

However, history bestowed upon it the strange homophonic appellation of “Ilu Aje” (Town of Witches) as a result of the intervention of Akinyolu, a herbalist
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