History of Omu-Aran

• The people of Igbomina Land
  Igbomina (Igbonna) is one of the major Sub - Groups of the Yoruba nation. Some other notable Yoruba sub - groups include the Awori, Egba, Ife , Oyo, Ijebu, Ekiti, Ijesha, Ondo, Akoko, Ilaje, Ilorin , Ijumu, Yagba, Owe and Ibolo. While many of the dialects are understandable across Yoruba Land , a few are esoteric in character and only admit into conversation those born into them. Igbomina belongs to the easily understandable cast...more
  
  
• The origin: Ogbo
  Virtually, all traditions in Igbomina Land agree that Igbomina as a name was created from Ogbo . As narrated in Chapter One, Ogbo was an artifact inherited by Oduduwa from the aborigines of Ile-Ife...more
  
  
• Omu-Aran's first place with the Ogbo
  History recollects that Olomu Aperan, founder of Omu-Aran, brought the Ogbo as a royal heritage from Ile-Ife where he had been custodian inherited it from Ile-Ife before of the object as the Esinkin in Ile-Ife, in the Oduduwa age...more
  
  
• Order of Arrival in Igbomina Land
  The Igbomina people arrived Igbomina Land in batches and at different times. They came mainly from three sources. These were Ife...more
  
  
• The Iyangba Ologbomona Confederacy
  In the hey days of the Oyo empire, some towns and villages of Igbomina, Moba and Ekiti origin came together and formed what was known as the Iyangba Ologbomona Confederacy...more
  
  
• Oyo's Collapse and the Effects on Igbomina Land
  By the late 17 th and early 18 th centuries, Oyo empire had stood out as the most distinguished political achievements of the Yoruba-speaking people...more
  
  
• Arrival in Omu, Early Conquest, Settling Down
  Omu Aran like most Yoruba towns is a conglomeration of mixed cultures in that it is a congregation of people from various places and backgrounds...more