Ilorin

Ilorin birni ne mai tarihi da ke cikin jihar Kwara, a yammacin Najeriya. An kafa shi ne a ƙarshen karni na 18 da mutanen Yoruba, kuma ya zama sansanin soja na Oyo Empire. A shekarar 1817, Kakanfo Afonja ya jagoranci yakin neman 'yanci, amma daga baya aka kashe shi, kuma ɗan Mallam Alimi, Abd al-Salam, ya zama sarki a kusa da shekarar 1829 ya kuma yi alwashin biyayya ga Sokoto Caliphate. A shekarar 1897, sojojin Royal Niger Company suka kama birnin, kuma a shekarar 1900 aka shigar da shi cikin Northern Nigeria Protectorate.

A yayin karni na 19, Ilorin ya kasance babban cibiyar kasuwanci tsakanin Hausawa na arewa da Yoruba na kudu. A shekarar 1967, aka kafa jihar Kwara, wanda Ilorin ya zama babban birnin ta. A yau, Ilorin yana da muhimmanci sosai wajen ilimi da kasuwanci a yammacin Najeriya. Akwai manyan jami'o'i kamar University of Ilorin da Kwara State Polytechnic, tare da manyan masana'antu kamar Olam cashew processing plant.

Yawan jama'ar Ilorin ya kai kimanin 908,490, kuma yana da fili mai yawan kilomita murabba'i 765. Mutanen Yoruba su ne yawancin masu zaune, amma akwai Hausawa, Fulani, Nupe, Bariba da sauran ƙabila. Musulunci da Kiristanci su ne manyan addinai a birnin.