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Igede Ekiti, a town in Ekiti Central Senatorial District, is the capital of Irepodun/Ifelodun Local Government Area of Ekiti State. Igede-Ekiti lies within the latitudes of 7 39 and 7 4 North of the Equator and longitudes 5 7 and 5 8 East of the Greenwich Meridian. It is the Headquarters of Irepodun/Ifelodun local Government Area and is bounded in the North by Awo-Ekiti and in the South by Ilawe -Ekiti, in the East by Iyin-Ekiti and in the west by Aramoko-Ekiti. The town is located at a 64 Kilometers North of Akure, the capital of Ondo state. It covers a land area of about 3.8 square Kilometers and has a population of 31,041 (1963 census). Igede-Ekiti belong to a people called the ‘Ekiti’. They settle in the eastern part of the old western state of Nigeria now known as Oyo, Ondo and Ekiti states. The people speak Ekiti dialect which is often mixed with standard Yoruba Language. The culture of the people is often mixed with standard Yoruba Language. The culture of the people is similar to what obtains in other Yoruba town (see Afolabi Ojo, Yoruba Culture, Page 18). Like most Yoruba town, the original inhabitants trace their origin to Ile Ife, the cradle of Yoruba civilization. The early settlers came from Ile probably between the 14th and 15th centuries and settle on a defensive Hill-top, Oke Esu, on the Eastern part of the present site. This was later followed by a down hill movement towards the relatively undulating topography of the West. Here, other immigrants who were force to leave there original places of abode because of chieftaincy dispute, family squabbles, land hunger and desire to be free from the exploitation of their local chiefs, swelled their numbers. Such immigrants Ila, Ikere, Ado-Ekiti, Esure, Oba Akure, Oyo, Erinjiyan and other part of Eastern Yoruba land (Aniye 1967)’ Igede-Ekiti is a Northern settlement (figure 2) foundered on relatively high land the highest point being 3,050m above sea level at at Oke-Esu and Agerereke Hiils (1950m), the lowest part is 10700m. there is a granite outcrop at Oke-Aga in Odogede area. The topography makes Igede a watershed landscape (figure3). The river Osun worship and adored as Osun Osogbo and in who’s honor a state is named, taken its source from Igede at a point between Igede-Ekiti and Iwo Ekiti in the Agerereke hills. There are other rivers such as Elemi, Ogbese, Inasi, Ogangan, Alariko, Ogburuu Ebisi. Hence the saying Igede lori omi lanipeja. The location of the town within the humid tropics makes it and its environ enjoys the tropical hot and wet climate. There is high temperature and heavy well distributed rainfall of the conventional type from late march to October and a dry season from November to early march. The rainfall region is of the order of onset advance and retreat. The average rainfall is about 1450 per annum. But for the recent weather changes, Igede enjoys a short spell of little or no rain fall in the month of August (August break) and harmattan from December to January. Like any other town or village in the whole of South Western, Nigeria, the weather has become unstable and unreliable for agricultural practices in recent times. The town falls within the rainforest belt of South Western of Nigeria and belongs to the same ecological zone. Its vegetation consists of evergreen trees with broad leaves and luxuriant growth. There is a layer arrangement with varied species and light undergrowth Mahogany, Ebony, Walnut, Iroko, Obeche, Masonia, Omo,oriro, Eku, Ahun, Idigbo, oporoporo, Agbonyin, Aaba, Kokogbo, Ayunre, Afara and Danta are the major species of trees. Some areas have been so deforested as to give way to derived savanna. However, such areas only appear in pocket (Adetunberu, 1986) This type of climate favours agriculture practices, therefore 80% of the inhabitants are engaged in farming activities of one type or the other in Ekiti state, agriculture provides employment for over 75% of the population (1.63million, 1991 census) and contributes well over 70% to the state’s Gross Domestic Product (G.D.P) (see marching with the General in Ondo State, 1992 page 10). The farm products include cocoa (accounting for more than 80% of the income of the farming production), kolanut (both accumulate nitida), palm oil kernel (from which a particular oil,’adin’ is produced}, banana and plantain, yam, cocoyam, cassava, maize, vegetables and to some extent, rice. Farming pattern conforms with what operates in the agricultural area of southwestern Nigeria (Afolabi Ojo 1973).  Palm wine is Igede’s all year cash earner and is a popular drink. It is produced from raffia palm. Since the wine is not store for a long time, the marketing coverage is in adjoining towns and villages, notably Ado-Ekiti, Iyin, Awo, Ilawe and Aramoko.    Some of the people engage in lumbering activities. There are furniture works, block making industries, welding and mechanical workshop for metal fabrications, battery charging, vulcanizing, petty trading, poultry rearing etc. Igedora Poulty farm is an industry which employ about sixty workers. In spite of its size, Igede falls short of the criterial for an urban settlement as defined in the more advanced of the world Dickinson (1947) noted with reference to Western Europe and North America that a town is a compact settlement engaged primarily in non-agricultural occupations. As noted by Aniye (1967), this is not true of towns in Yorubaland; and it is not true of agriculture cities in Hungary, Spain and Southern Italy. Urbanization really implies a high level of economic specialization, division of labour and factory system of production. And with reference to igede, a great number of populations is primarily engaged in agriculture as the level of economic specialization is low and division of is not in existence; factory system of production was non-existent as at July, 2000. If, however, it is only the population that is used as a measure of determining urban settle, Igede would be regarded as an urban center with population of 31,041 (1963 census) this would however, be both in size and administration functions. What is certain is that being a Local Government Headquarters, and with its present population, Igede-Ekiti could best be described as an emerging town in the regional setting. As noted by Mabogunje (1962) towns are the products of their time and culture and must be appreciated within that context and with time, Igede, being very closed to Ado-Ekiti, the State Capital would soon develop into urban status.