HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF SAGAMU Published on January 12, 2016.

HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF SAGAMU Published on January 12, 2016. 

Sagamu town, Ogun state, southwestern Nigeria. It lies along the Ibu River and the Eruwuru Stream, between Lagos and Ibadan. Founded in the mid-19th century by members of the Remo branch of the Yoruba people, it soon became a major market centre of the Remo (Ijebu-Remo) kingdom. Following the British destruction of the Ijebu trade monopoly in 1892 and their later decision to build the railway from Lagos through Abeokuta, 30 miles (48 km) northwest, Shagamu declined in importance. It was not until the completion of the Lagos-Shagamu-Ibadan road in 1953 and the opening of a new road to Benin City in 1964 that the town regained some of its old significance as a trade centre.

Shagamu is Nigeria’s largest collecting point for kola nuts. Although cocoa, rubber, and palm oil and kernels are also cultivated in the vicinity for export, local trade is primarily in yams, cassava (manioc), rice, corn (maize), palm produce, oranges, and onions. Cotton weaving and dyeing (with locally grown indigo) are traditional industries, but Shagamu has become best known in recent years for its thorn carvings of Nigerian scenes. A carpet industry and a cement factory (opened in 1978) form the modern sector of the economy.

Next to one of the markets are the palace and administrative buildings of the present Yoruba oba (king) Akarigbo of Remo Land. Shagamu is also served by a central mosque, Anglican and Methodist churches, public and religious teacher-training colleges, and a hospital. Pop. (2006) local government area, 253,412.

Sunrise at 07:00 and Sunset at 18:46. It's light

Latitude. 6.8500°, Longitude. 3.6500° 

Temperature: 26°C / 79°F

Wind: 4.6km/h North/Northwest

Populated Place;

a city, town, village, or other agglomeration of buildings where people live and work.

Sagamu (0km) Ijoko (4.6km) Makun (7.3km) Araromi (11.8km) Sotubo (11.8km) Okoto Ajegunle (11.8km) Ikene (13.5km) Iperu (13.5km) Maya (13.5km) Erugbin (14.6km) Ilishan (16.3km) Ewu Ode (16.3km) Okemaso (16.3km) Ogere (16.6km) Oke Akuko (17.6km) Aiyepe (19km) Otunbakoga (19.9km) Oke Ate (19.9km) Ode Lemo (19.9km) Igbo Olo (19.9km) Ijagon (20.6km) Logbara (20.9km) Gbara Bagbimo (20.9km) Arigbabu (20.9km) Irolu (21.9km) Awo (21.9km) Latoro (21.9km) Odogbolu (22.8km) Ewu Oliwo (22.9km) Ilara (23.1km) Idofin Oke (23.1km) Idofin Isale (23.1km) Ewu Osi (23.1km) Ita Epinni (23.1km) Ajeregun (23.1km) Ode Remo (23.7km) Isoku (23.8km) Sogbodun (23.8km) Agura (24.8km) Mosīm (25.5km) Ijebu Ijesha (26.3km) Potoki (26.3km) Somo (26.3km) Odo Gbuwa (26.3km) Iraye (26.3km) Isara (26.9km) Oluwo (26.9km) Seriki (26.9km) Orile Igbein (26.9km) Oso (26.9km) Iki (27km) Otumba (27.9km) Asanle (27.9km) Akaka (28.1km) Likosi (28.1km) Mayaka (29.2km) Mede (29.2km) Ipara (29.5km) Otere (29.5km) Ewu Ogun (29.6km)

This information below explores Remo's responses to the wider conflicts affecting the region during the nineteenth century, which include the break-up of the Remo federation and the foundation of the current Remo capital Sagamu. The overall effect of this development was a hierarchisation that reduced spaces for local participation, but which also increased Remo's political autonomy vis-à-vis its former overlord Ijebu-Ode. When the British recognised Sagamu, its leading town Ofin and its ruler, the Akàrígbò, as Remo's central institutions in 1894, they further confirmed these trends.

Sagamu Local Government came into being on 23rd September, 1991. It was carved out of the old Remo Local Government . The local government is peopled by all tribes in Nigeria though Remo dialect of Yoruba lanuage is the main local language. The Sabo area of offin, Sagamu, can be mistaken for any typical northern town for language, culture and setting.

Occupation of the people is mainly farming. This local government produced the Best Farmer of the Year 1993 at both state and national levels. Also, the local government has majority of her people as Kola-nut farmers.

POPULATION  

203,350 {1997 Census figure}

 

AGRICULTURE AND PROSPECTS

The people of Sagamu Local Government area are predominantly farmers. The major cash crop is Kolanut. Food crop such as cassava, melon maize and yam are however grown as supplement.

BOUNDRY

It is bounded by Odogbolu local Government, Lagos State,Ikenne Local Government and Obafemi Owode Local  Government in the east,north and west respectively.

 

VEGETATION.           

Rain forest

LAND AREA  

68.03sq kms

ADMINISTRATION/POLITICAL WARDS

For adminisrative and political convenience . Sagamu Local Government is divided into 15 wards, namely:

Oko Epe & Itunla 1

Oko Epe & Itunla 11

Aiyegbami/ Ijoku

Sabo 1

Sabo11

Itunsoku/ Oyebajo

Ijagba

Latawa

Ode-Iemo

Ogijo/ Ikosi

Surulere

Isote

Simawa

Agbowa

Ibido/Itun Alara.