Olorunda Towns And Villages

Olorunda is a Local Government Area in Osun State, Nigeria, on the edge of the Osogbo metropolis. Its headquarters sits at Igbona. The area covers about 97 square kilometres.

The 2006 census counted 131,649 residents. The 2022 projection puts the figure near 170,900. Olorunda holds eleven wards: Agowande, Balogun, Akogun, Atelewo, Owoope, Owode I, Owode II, Ayetoro, Oba-Ile, Oba Oke and Ilie.

The area is largely urban, forming part of Osogbo’s built-up core alongside Osogbo LGA itself, with a scatter of named quarters and villages inside each ward.

The list below was checked name by name against 2015 INEC ward and polling-unit records, the GeoNames gazetteer and GRID3 settlement data:

  1. Aba-Esa
  2. Agbede Awoyale
  3. Agowande
  4. Akogun
  5. Atelewo
  6. Ayetoro
  7. Balogun
  8. Dagbolu
  9. Elemo
  10. Idi Amu
  11. Idi Ape
  12. Idi Emi
  13. Idi Osan
  14. Ilie
  15. Jagun
  16. Kobongbogbo
  17. Oba Oke
  18. Oba-Ile
  19. Odesola
  20. Odofin
  21. Ojomu
  22. Oke
  23. Oke Ore
  24. Olorunda
  25. Olukotun
  26. Oluode
  27. Onigboro
  28. Osolo
  29. Ota-Efun
  30. Owode I
  31. Owode II
  32. Owoope
  33. Sabo
  34. Temidire