Odigbo

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Odigbo Local Government Ore
LGA
Country	Nigeria
State	Ondo State
Time zone	UTC+1 (WAT)

Odigbo is a Local Government Area in Ondo State, Nigeria. Its headquarters are in the town of Ore.^[1]

It has an area of 1,818 km² (702 sq mi) and a population of 230,351 at the 2006 census. The current census as of 2020 is over 600,000 as Ore Town continue to attract new inhabitants from every part of the country. The people of Odigbo local government are from the Yoruba lineage and the Furupagha-Ijaws that constituted the Ebijaw ward. These people include The Odigbos, Ayesan, Araromi Obus and Ajue who largely observe similar customs and uphold the same traditional as other Yorubas while the Ijaws are the Eluju-Iyaradina, Ebijaw, Ebijaw Zion,Taribor, Gbunuwei, Ukuregbene, Abadigbene. The people of odigbo local government speak a local dialect close to the ondos. These people cover the towns and the villages of Ore town, Agbabu, Lafe, Modebiayo, Isheba, Oke-Oluwa, Ayetedo, Ago Alaye, Ajebamidele, Ajebambo, Kajola, Ayesan, Oniparaga, Imorun, Laleipa, Okefara, Ayetoro, Sidigi, Oke-Ojakoparun, Lokuta, Araromi-Ayesan oil palm estate, Basola, Agirifon, Adewinle, Aiyetimbo, Koseru, Omowole, Onipetesi, Mile 49, Labon, Akinseye, Temidire, Sokoto, Bolorunduro, Fesojoye, Oduduwa village, Ajibodu. The odigbo local government people share boundary with the Ondos in the north, the Ikales in the east, the Ijebus of Ogun State in the south and Osun State in the west.

Several villages in Odigbo local government are inhabited by non-indigenes like people from Oyo and Osun States as well as the Ikale people of Irele and Okitipupa local government areas of Ondo state. The biggest town of Odigbo local Government is Ore Town, this town is a major nodal town on one of the busiest highways in the country, the Shagamu-Ore-Benin Expressway. The Local Government Office is situated in Ore. People from every part of the country live in Ore Town due to its nodal and commercial nature.

The postal code of the area is 350.^[2]