OGUN STATE IN PERSPECTIVE PART 2

The Paramount Rulers in Ogun State are four in number, they are:

1.            ALAKE OF EGBALAND

2.            OLU OF ILARO

3.            AKARIGBO OF REMOLAND

4.            AWUJALE OF IJEBULAND

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This glorious State called Gateway State is strategically located and bordered to the South by Lagos the Commercial nerve centre of the country and the Atlantic ocean, to the East by Ondo State and to the North by Oyo and Osun States, its bordered with Republic of Benin to the West which makes it an access route to the expansive market of the Economic Community of West Africa States (ECOWAS) that is why Ogun State was named the Gateway State.

                Mostly, all the companies in Ogun State are located near border such as Agbara Industrial Estate, Sango Industrial Estate, Mowe, Ibafo, Iju, Berger, and Atan Idi-Iroko etc. Most businessmen, women and some indigenes of Ogun State were based in Lagos, Ibadan and around the world which contributed immensely to the economy of the State e.g.

(1)          Mike Adenuga (Globacom, GLO) Africa)

(2)          Late Chief Majekodunmi (St. Nicolas Hospital, Lagos)

(3)          Late Chief Fatai Gbemisola (Oil & Gas) Nigeria

(4)          Sanusi (Iron Industry)

(5)          Okoya Thomas (Plastic & Real Estate)

(6)          Tejuoso (Teju foam)

(7)          Late M.K.O. Abiola (Aviation, Publishing, Oil)

(8)          Oba Otudeko (Oil and Gas)

(9)          Otunba Subomi Balogun (Banking)

(10)        Chief Ola Rotimi (Author)

(11)        Chief Bayo Kuku (Entrepreneur)

(12)        Prof. Adebayo Adedeji CFR

(13)        Chief Fola Adeola (Banking)

(14)        Chief Adeola Odutola

(15)        Late Olabintan

(16)        Late Senator Jonathan Odebiyi

(17)        Professor Biyi Afonja and many more.

Ogun State has land mass of 16,409.26 square kilometers. The population of Ogun State based on 2006 Census was 3,751,140. However, the estimated population as at 2013 was 5.2 million.