Sepeteri is the biggest town in the Saki East

Saki East

Saki East is a Local Government Area in Oyo State, Nigeria. Its headquarters are in the town of Ago-Amodu.It has an area of 1,569 km² and a population of 110,223 at the 2006 census.The postal code of the area is 203....

 Local Government Area

Local Government Area

A local government area is an administrative division of a country that a local government is responsible for. The size of an LGA varies by country but it is generally a subdivision of a state, province, division, or territory....

 of Oke-Ogun Oyo State

Oyo State

Ọyọ State is an inland state in south-western Nigeria, with its capital at Ibadan. It is bounded in the north by Kwara State, in the east by Osun State, in the south by Ogun State and in the west partly by Ogun State and partly by the Republic of Benin....

, Nigeria. The people of Sepeteri are believed to have migrated from a town called Ifon in Osun State

Osun State

Ọṣun State is an inland state in south-western Nigeria. Its capital is Osogbo. It is bounded in the north by Kwara State, in the east partly by Ekiti State and partly by Ondo State, in the south by Ogun State and in the west by Oyo State. The state's current governor is Rauf Aregbesola, who was...

. Sepeteri is located between Igboho and Oje Owode (formerly called "Aha") to Shaki

Shaki, Nigeria

Shaki is a relatively big town situated in the northern part of Oyo State in western Nigeria.-Location:The terrain is hilly. It lies near the source of the Ofiki River, the chief tributary of the Ogun River, about 40 miles from the Benin border. It is referred to as the food basket of Oyo...

, Ago Are and Iseyin.

Description

The title of oba of Sepeteri is Obalufon of Sepeteri. The ruling families are Daodus, Baloguns and Ogboros.

Sepeteri is located in between Shaki and Igboho in Oke-Ogun area, Oyo North Senatorial District of the state of Oyo in Nigeria. Oke-Ogun comprises ten local governments, excluding Ogbomoso. Oke-Ogun area is situated between Oyo and the present kwara state

Kwara State

Kwara State is one of the 36 states of Nigeria. Its capital is Ilorin. The primary ethnic group of Kwara State is Yoruba, with significant Nupe, Bariba and Fulani minorities.- History :...

. The area starts from Iseyin and ends in Bakase, a small town along the boundary of Oyo State and Kwara State.

People

The town is homogeneous comprising in the main, people belonging to the Yoruba ethnic group

Ethnic group

An ethnic group is a group of people whose members identify with each other, through a common heritage, often consisting of a common language, a common culture and/or an ideology that stresses common ancestry or endogamy...

 who speak the Yoruba language

Yoruba language

Yorùbá is a Niger–Congo language spoken in West Africa by approximately 20 million speakers. The native tongue of the Yoruba people, it is spoken, among other languages, in Nigeria, Benin, and Togo and in communities in other parts of Africa, Europe and the Americas...

, although minority groups from elsewhere in Nigeria and Africa are represented. Like all other Yorubas, they claim descent from Oduduwa. The extended family

Extended family

The term extended family has several distinct meanings. In modern Western cultures dominated by nuclear family constructs, it has come to be used generically to refer to grandparents, uncles, aunts, and cousins, whether they live together within the same household or not. However, it may also refer...

 system is important to the Yoruba culture.

Muslims are the majority religion here, with a minority of Christians and those who follow traditional beliefs.

Economy

There is some mineral availability in the area, such as tantalite, columbite, cassiterite, Kaolin, and granite. The town welcomes investors for mining and quarrying ventures in the area. In addition, the Oyo State Government is setting up a lapidary to process the minerals and an International Gem stone market in the city of Ibadan where miners can easily market their wares.

The town has tourism potential, such as Old Oyo National park

Old Oyo National Park

Old Oyo National Park is one of the National parks of Nigeria, located across northern Oyo State and southern Kwara State, Nigeria.It is rich in plant and animal resources including buffaloes, bushbuck and wide variety of birds....

, Iyemoja Shrine, Fishing festival, Asabari Hills, Old mining sites.

Agriculture is the major industry in Sepeteri. Apart from the primary roles of providing food and shelter, employment, industrial raw materials, it remains an important source of internally generated revenue in the local Government.

The climate favours the growth of food crops like yam, cassava, millet, maize, fruits, rice and plantains. Cash crop

Cash crop

In agriculture, a cash crop is a crop which is grown for profit.The term is used to differentiate from subsistence crops, which are those fed to the producer's own livestock or grown as food for the producer's family...

s such as citrus, tobacco and timber also abound in the State.