The vegetation pattern of Oyo State is that of rain forest in the South and guinea savannah in the north. Thick forest in the South gives way to grassland interspersed with trees in the north.
The climate in the State favours the cultivation of crops like maize, yam, cassava, millet, rice, plantains, cocoa trees, palm trees and cashews.
The town has several daily and regular traditional markets, which are usually hosted every 3 - 5 days. Staple foods are the primary commodities of these markets, though they feature other kinds of products too. All major mobile phone service networks are available in Oyo but with varying degree of reliability and usability. Often times, it is customary to experience network outage for all or some of the mobile phone service providers. Such situation is particularly common in some remote areas of the city.
And it is also common for different networks to be more stable and reliable in different locations of the city at different times. It is preferable if you are planning a visit to this city to have multiple SIM cards that cut across all the mobile service providers as you can't tell which will be more stable and reliable at a time in your location during your visit. And if you will risk not having any of them, you might be better off not dropping the MTN network, because,from indications, they seem to perform well than the others, though their rates may be high and their offers and services might be stringent, but you might be more assured of seamless voice and data connection.
The various broadband cellular network available include 2G, 3G, and 4G networks, but the coverage of the 4G network is not widespread. Glo Globacom boasts of fast network speed for internet browsing activities, but that might only be enjoyable in limited locations. Airtel is fairly satisfactory for all you might need to connect to the world, including rates and network stability.
As for 9mobile , they also perform well in internet browsing speed but not without locational limitations. Climate [ edit ] It has an equatorial climate with dry and wet seasons and relatively high humidity. Get in [ edit ] Get around [ edit ] Map of Oyo Nigeria.
This city travel guide to Oyo is an outline and needs more content. It has a template , but there is not enough information present. Please plunge forward and help it grow! Namespaces Page Discussion. Views Read Edit View history. The State covers a total of 28, square kilometres of land mass and it is bounded in the south by Ogun State, in the north by Kwara State, in the west it is partly bounded by Ogun State and partly by the Republic of Benin, while in the East by Osun State.
The landscape consists of old hard rocks and dome shaped hills, which rise gently from about meters in the southern part and reaching a height of about 1, metres above sea level in the northern part.
The State is well drained with rivers flowing from the upland in the north-south direction. Oyo State has an equatorial climate with dry and wet seasons and relatively high humidity. The dry season lasts from November to March while the wet season starts from April and ends in October.
The vegetation pattern of Oyo State is that of rain forest in the south and guinea savannah in the north. Thick forest in the south gives way to grassland interspersed with trees in the north. It came into existence with the break up of the old Western State of Nigeria during the State creation exercise in and it originally included Osun State, which was split off in Oyo State is homogenous, mainly inhabited by the Yoruba ethnic group who are primarily agrarian but have a predilection for living in high density urban centers.
The indigenes mainly comprise the Oyos, the Ogbomosos, the Oke-Oguns, the Ibadans and the Ibarapas, all belonging to the Yoruba family and indigenous city in Africa, south of the Sahara.
Ibadan had been the centre of administration of the old Western Region, Nigeria since the days of the British colonial rule. There is abundance of Clay, Kaolin and Aquamarine. There are also vast cattle ranches at Saki, Fasola, Moniya and Ibadan. The first university in Nigeria is the University of Ibadan established as a college of the University of London when it was founded in , and later converted into an Autonomous university in It has the distinction of being one of the premier educational institutions in West Africa.
There are secondary schools as well as 1, public primary schools in the State. The State which is homogeneous, has a population of about 6million and is predominantly occupied by the Yoruba people. Within the State however, there are sub-ethnic groups with distinct dialect peculiarities.
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