Ikere-Ekiti

Ikere-Ekiti

also called  Ikere , or  Ikerre 

      town, Ekiti state, southwestern Nigeria, on the road from Akure to Ado-Ekiti. A major collecting point for cocoa, it also serves as an agricultural trade centre (yams, cassava [manioc], rice, corn [maize], palm oil and kernels, okra, pumpkins) for the Ekiti branch of the Yoruba people. Ikere-Ekiti has government and Christian teacher-training colleges; there is also a hospital. The town is headquarters of the Ekiti South Local Government Council. Pop. (2006) local government area, 147,355.

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