AFIJIO LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Afijio Local Government Area consists of ten (10) wards and it came into existence after the Federal Government carved it from Old Oyo Local Government Area in 1989. The Administrative headquaters of the Local Government is located at Jobele. It occupies a land area of 685.085 square kilometers with 2010 estimated population size of 152,193 using a growth rate of 3.2% from 2006 census figures. The population density of the area is 222 persons per square kilometer. It is bounded in the North by Oyo East Local Government Area, Akinyele Local Government Area in the South and Iseyin Local Government Area in the West. It also shares common boundry with Ejigbo and Iwo Local Government Areas in the East. The Yorubas mainly dominate Afijo Local Government Area. The indigens are mostly farmers who had taken the advantage of vast Agricultural land that favours the cultivation of food crops such as maize, guinecorn, yam, cassava, cowpea, soya beans, fruits, tomatoes and cash crops such as groundnuts, cocoa, oil-palm, kolanuts, coffee, orange and citrus. The Local Government Area is a home for one of the State farm settlements – Ilora farm settlement. A number of tourists attraction centres located in the Local Government areas includes Ese Oloja Hill (Ilora), Ifaniyi Hill (Oke Isemi) Ilora, Obanikoro (Ilora), Erugun (Ilu-Aje), Sogidi Lake (Aawe) Igi Omo (Ilora), Odo Eegbe (Fiditi), Yemoja (Akinmorin), Kutanti Shrine (Aawe) Among others.

AFIJIO LOCAL GOVERNMENT, JOBELE

P.M.B 1044, Jobele,
Jobele,
Oyo State.
info@afijio.gov.ng

Chairman:  Chief E. A. Adeleye

 

ACHIEVEMENTS

Road Construction

  • Construction of hydraulic structure and asphaltic tarring of Market-Akano Road, Iware -  275m
  • Construction of hydraulic structure and asphaltic tarring of Local Government Education Authority Road at Jobele – 308m
  • Asphaltic overlay of Sogidi Lane Awe, together with the construction of 1.5m x 1.2m box culvert – 680m
  • Construction of hydraulic structures and asphaltic tarring of Fiditi Grammar School-Iware Bye Pass Fiditi – 650m
  • Construction of hydraulic structure and asphaltic tarring of Oke Abata-Adekomi road, Ilora – 550m
  • Construction of hydraulic structure and asphaltic tarring of Adekomi-Isale Odo junction, Ilora – 300m
  • Asphaltic tarring of Local Government Hostel road, Jobele – 220m
  • Construction of 1.5m x 3.0m x 10m double cell reinforced concrete box culvert on Oloparun river along Akinmoorin –
  • Construction of 1.2 x 1.2 x 7.0m reinforced concrete box culvert at Tella road, Ilora –
  • Construction of 0.3m x 1.2m x 64m retaining wall to adjourn Oloparun box culvert along Akinmoorin-Idi Igba road, Akinmoorin –
  • Construction of hydraulic structures and asphaltic tarring of 474m length of road on Aruna-Alugbin junction, Fiditi – 474m
  • Construction of hydraulic structures and asphaltic tarring of road on Oke Odofin-Maternity Centre, Akinmoorin – 340m
  • Construction of hydraulic structures and asphaltic tarring of road on Kosobo-Awe High School road, Awe – 680m
  • Construction/re-construction of hydraulic structures and asphaltic overlay of road on Health Centre road, Ilora – 510m
  • Construction/repair of hydraulic structures and asphalic tarring of road on Wolewole-Odeleye Ikolaba road, Ilora – 230m
  • Grading/Rehabilitation of Earthroad:
  • Ilora-Imini road
  • Eleti-Iyana Alagbara-Lesin road, Ilora
  • Iyana Alagbara Lesin-Iyana Oniyanrin-Imini
  • Imini-Atan road
  • Olukotun-Itosi road
  • Idowu Oko road, Iware
  • Fiditi-Idi Emi road
  • Grading of Fiditi Township road
  • Grading of Ife Odan road
  • Grading of Idi-Iroko road
  • Grading of Awe Township road
  • Grading of Iware Township road
  • Idi-Igba-Akinmoorin road
  • Aba Suru-L.A. School Atente road
  • Atente-Aba Olorisade road-Aribombo-Eleyele road
  • Grading of Abajumo-Olowa Isale-Olowa Oke-Sunmibare road
  • Iyana Alagbara Lesin-Aba Suru road
  • Construction of 300m rubble stone line drained at Tella road, Ilora
  • Construction of 450m rubble stone line drained at Akinmoorin Grammar School-Baptist Church, Akinmoorin
  • IloraBaptist Grammar Schoolroad, Ilora
  • Spot and sectional asphaltic patching of some roads at Atake road, Ilora, Ojelabi Fiditi, Eruku road, Fiditi
  • Constuction of 1.8mx3.6mx6m Box Culvert at Idi-Igba-Akinmoorin road
  • Construction of 1.2mx1.2mx6m Box Culvert at Jobele

 

Education and Social Service Sector

  • Constuction of a block of three classrooms at Atente
  • Procurement of a 4 set of computers and generating sets to Awe High School, Awe; Fiditi Grammar School, Fiditi; Akinmoorin Grammar School and Baptist Grammar School, Ilora
  • Renovation of Primary Schools in the following areas:
  • L.A. Primary School, Ilora; Okediji Primary School, Ilora; Ebenezer Baptists Primary School, Fiditi; Methodist Primary School, Fiditi and First Baptist Primary School, Awe
  • Payment of NECO/GCE forms for 50 indigene students of the Local Government
  • Donation of N100,000.00 to a pupil of Best Legacy International School, Awe who came second in the world at an International Quiz Competition in Thailand
  • Demolition of a dilapidated block of classroom at Akinmoorin which was done to save lives of innocent pupils and teachers
  • Clearing of a thick forest at Okediji Primary School which harbours criminals and wild animals which poses great danger to learning
  • Led the Afijio United Football Club to the State Challenge Cup final where we lost to the Shootings Stars Football Club of Ibadan thus qualified for the national preliminaries of the Challenge Cup

 

Health Sector

  • Construction of Diagnostic Centre at Idi-Igba, Ilora
  • Procurement of N200,000.00 worth of drugs and dressings to Health Centres Monthly
  • Participation in Routine Immunization of Children
  • Control of Communicable Diseases such as guineworm, onchocerciasis

 

Environmental Health Services

  • Routine House to House inspection
  • Periodic chlorination of wells

 

Agriculture and Natural Resources

  • Establishment of citrus seedlings in order to rejuvenate citrus production in the Local Government area
  • Afforestation programme for the year 2008 with the distribution of Teak stumps to the primary and secondary schools, mosques, churches and farmers