Wednesday 28 August 2013

IKENNE DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION (IDA)




IKENNE DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION (IDA), established since 1977, is the representative body of the people of Ikenne-Remo, Ogun State of Nigeria, through which the indigenes organize themselves for holistic approach to the Social, physical infrastructural and health development of this small community with a human population of less than 0.400 million. To be very specific, Ikenne-Remo is a community reputed to be 'second to none' in the sphere of Community Development in Ogun State of Nigeria. Her Volumes of developmental activities earned her the seat of the Ikenne Local Government in 1991, regardless of its small size.It is symbolic of the IDA to set aside the last week in October and the first week in November of every year to celebrate development in the town. This is a period during which all indigenes converge at home to commission the projects executed through self-development efforts of some notable public-spirited indigenes during the year. The first Saturday in November marks the grand-finale ceremony of the annual events tagged “EREKE DAY”. Since 1977 to date, the IDA has successfully executed, donated and dedicated for use the following health and physical-social developmental projects:
  • A Community Hospital, which has now been upgraded to a General Hospital by the Ogun
State Government.
  •  Equipment and drugs to the Ikenne Local Government Primary Health Care Centre &
Maternity Ward.
  • Some bore-holes in some quarters where the problem of access to portable water is hitting
hard on the indigenes.
  • Ikenne Community High School in 1980, which has now been taken over by the Ogun State
Government.
  • Facilitated the relocation of the Faculty of Basic Medical Sciences of the Obafemi Awolowo
College of Health Sciences, Olabisi Onabanjo University to Ikenne, by single-handedly
providing the land, executing the construction and donation of all the building complexes, access
roads, electricity transformer and boreholes on the Ikenne Campus of the university.
  •  An ultra-modern building complex for use as the Ikenne Divisional Headquarters of the
Nigeria Police. 8. Classroom blocks in all its four (4) public primary schools.
 An ultra-modern Post Office Complex & Post-Master's Quarters.
 An ultra-modern Multipurpose Hall for the Community
  • Rehabilitation of street lights and some roads in the town.
  •  A modern Banking Complex now being used as the Community Bank 


THE SUCCESS STORY OF OLUFEMI ADENIJI, WHO WAS THE ACTING CHAIRMAN IKENNE LOCAL GOVT AREA, OGUN STATE (2011-2012)

While leadership to some people is an opportunity to enrich themselves, few others see it as a rare privilege to better the lots of the masses and put smiles on their faces.
Hon. (Barrister) Olufemi Sunday Adeniji, Acting Chairman Transition Committee,
Ikenne  Local Government Area of Ogun State belongs to the category of politicians who are in government to better the lots of the masses. He has not only demonstrated that he is really a man of action, but also, he has demonstrated an exemplary life of dedication, service and ultimate desire to transform the lives of his people at the grassroots.In fact, since assumption of office about a year ago, the people of Ikenne Local Government Area have had cause to smile and thank  God for giving them a leader with a high sense of dedication and service to the people. Call him a ‘God- sent’ and you may not be wrong. Indeed, to the people of Ikenne LGA, Hon. (Barrister) Olufemi Sunday Adeniji is a ‘God sent’ leader.

Despite his initial complaint of meeting the council in a state of decay, Hon. (Barrister) Olufemi Sunday Adeniji declared “I ‘m here to serve my people”. Indeed, he has proved his words going by the various laudable programmes he has carried out in almost one year in office. However, following his excellent performance, Governor Ibikunle Amosun recently after his assessment tour of the 20 local government areas, adjudged Ikenne LGA as one of the best local governments in the state. This commendation scorecard remains a direct reflection of a true visionary leader in action.

What Ikenne people are witnessing today is a realisation of Hon. (Barrister) Olufemi Sunday Adeniji's dream to delivering the dividends of democracy at the grassroots. He believes in carrying everybody along, and that is why, upon assumption of office, he did not overlook the need to consult with the various community leaders and opinion moulders, all in the bid to transform the area. Today, it has paid off, and Ikenne people can tell better.

Often times, people have had this negative notion that the third tier of government operates either appendages of the state governments or out-rightly has outlived its usefulness to the grassroots people owing to the activities of some corrupt politicians, but people like Adeniji, have proved that this wrong with their selfless services.
Being a one – time chairman of Ikenne Development Association, Hon. (Barrister) Olufemi Sunday Adeniji perfectly understands the problems and challenges facing his people. And that’s why, upon assumption of office, he rolled out a holistic programmes geared towards jumpstarting even development in the area. Prominent among the programmes, was the continued maintenance of the local government’s oil palm plantation which is  situated in Ikenne.
As one of the economic base of the council, the administration occasionally carries out weeding and pruning of the plantation. The last exercise was carried out between September and October last year. The palms were harvested after weeding as planting were also carried out in the same vein, the fruits according to the council boss had since been processed into palm oil in line with the states government’s programme on agriculture. Also, the administration boasted of collecting 1,000 day old chicks (pullets) for rearing last year. Today, the chicks are said to be doing well as various vaccine and medication were giving to the birds to boast their growth.

Apart from the administration’s concern for boasting agriculture in the area, its sustained health care programme restored the hopes of a number of indigent patients in the area and has given them reason to live a fulfilled life. His construction of a new medical centre at the now evacuated dump site in Iperu, and the renovation of two health facilities in Ogere and  Ikenne, remains  a clear testimony of his believe in the slogan that ‘health is wealth”.

Other achievements of the administration in the area of providing primary health care to the people, were the provision of equipment to health facilities, sponsoring of caesarian section and appendicetory operation of two indigent patients. Also, provision of Caesarian section and appendicetory packs to care for emergency operations, sponsoring of vision screening and provision of eye glasses and drugs to patients screened according to their needs, as well as taking care and transportation of abandoned baby welfare department in Abeokuta.

Furthermore, considering the importance of water to human life, the administration embarked on the drilling of boreholes in some communities in the area. Such communities that benefited from this project included; Ademo/Abara quarter, IIisan, Oja-ale market, Iperu, Yawa, Ikenne, Ogere market amongst others. 

Also, the administration undertook the rehabilitation of  solar borehole at Oke-Ola street, Ilisan, as well as the ancient shrine at Ikenne market, construction of open- stores at Ogere and Ikenne markets. In the area of sanitasizing the environment, the administration, carried out a number of laudable projects, including the clearing of dump sites within the local council, prominent among them was the evacuation of debris/silts from the blocked drainage system in the area, cutting of roads verges with the council, landscaping the median of the road, and procurement of reflective safety jackets for participants during environmental sanitation day exercise which the council observes monthly.

Despite facing a lot of distraction from his opponents, the council boss has remained resolute and determined to give the people the best of governance at the grassroots. 

Friday 23 August 2013

BIOGRAPHY OF CHIEF OBAFEMI AWOLOWO

OBAFEMI AWOLOWO
Chief Jeremiah Obafemi Awolowo (March 6, 1909 – May 9, 1987), commonly known as Awo and often referred to as the sage, was one of Nigeria's founding fathers. His first name, Obafemi, means 'The king loves me' and the surname Awolowo means 'The mystic, or mysticism, commands honour or respect'. A Yoruba and native of Ikenne in Ogun State of Nigeria, he started his career as a nationalist in the Nigerian Youth Movement like some of his pre-independence contemporaries and was responsible for many of the progressive social legislation that have made Nigeria a modern nation.
  He was an active journalist and trade unionist as a young man, editing The Nigerian Worker amongst other publications while also organizing the Nigerian Produce Traders Association and serving as secretary of the Nigerian Motor Transport Union. After earning a Bachelor of Commerce degree in Nigeria from a London University through correspondence, he went to the UK where he earned a law degree as an external student. While there, he founded the Egbe Omo Oduduwa, a pan-Yoruba cultural society, which set the stage for the formation of the Action Group, a liberal and nationalist political party. As Leader of the Group, he represented the Western Region in all the constitutional conferences intended to advance Nigeria on the path to independence. He was the first Leader of Government Business and Minister of Local Government and Finance and first Premier of the Western Region under Nigeria's parliamentary system, from 1952 to 1959, and was the official Leader of the Opposition in the federal parliament to the Balewa government from 1959 to 1963. In addition to all these, Awolowo was the first individual in the modern era to be referred to as Leader of the Yorubas (Yoruba:Asiwaju Omo Oodua), a title which has come over time to be conventionally ascribed to his direct successors as the recognised political leader of the elders and young members of the Yoruba clans of Nigeria.


EARLY LIFE
Chief Obafemi Awolowo was born on March 6, 1909 in Ikenne, present day Ogun State Nigeria. His father was a farmer and sawyer who died when Obafemi was only seven years old. He attended various schools, and then became a teacher in Abeokuta, after which he qualified as a shorthand typist. Subsequently, he served as a clerk at the famous Wesley college, as well as a correspondent for the Nigerian Times. It was after this that he embarked on various business ventures to help raise funds to travel to the UK for further studies.[citation needed] In 1949 Awolowo founded the Nigerian Tribune, the oldest surviving private Nigerian newspaper, which he used to spread nationalist consciousness among his fellow Nigerians.

POLITICS
Awolowo was Nigeria's foremost federalist. In his Path to Nigerian Freedom (1947) — the first systematic federalist manifesto by a Nigerian politician — he advocated federalism as the only basis for equitable national integration and, as head of the Action Group, he led demands for a federal constitution, which was introduced in the 1954 Lyttleton Constitution, following primarily the model proposed by the Western Region delegation led by him. As premier, he proved to be and was viewed as a man of vision and a dynamic administrator. Awolowo was also the country's leading social democratic politician.He supported limited public ownership and limited central planning in government. He believed that the state should channel Nigeria's resources into education and state-led infrastructural development. Controversially, and at considerable expense, he introduced free primary education for all in the Western Region, established the first television service in Africa in 1959,and the Oduduwa Group, all of which were financed from the highly lucrative cocoa industry which was the mainstay of the regional economy.

CRISIS IN WESTERN NIGERIA
From the eve of independence, he led the Action Group as the Leader of the Opposition at the federal parliament, leaving Samuel Ladoke Akintola as the Western Region Premier. Serious disagreements between Awolowo and Akintola on how to run the western region led the latter to an alliance with the Tafawa Balewa-led NPC federal government. A constitutional crisis led to a declaration of a state of emergency in the Western Region, eventually resulting in a widespread breakdown of law and order.Excluded from national government, Awolowo and his party faced an increasingly precarious position. Akintola's followers, angered at their exclusion from power, formed the Nigerian National Democratic Party (NNDP) under Akintola's leadership. Having previously suspended the elected Western Regional Assembly, the federal government then reconstituted the body after new elections that brought Akintola's NNDP into power. Shortly afterwards Awolowo and several disciples were arrested, charged, convicted and jailed for conspiring with some Ghanaian authorities under Kwame Nkrumah to overthrow the federal government. The remnants of the Action Group fought the National election of 1965 in alliance with the largely Igbo, and south-eastern NCNC. Amid accusations of fraud from the NCNC-AG camp, the NPC-NNDP won the election; the AG supporters reacted with violent riots in some parts of the Western region. Awolowo was later freed and pardoned by the military administration.He was much later appointed the Federal Commissioner of Finance and Vice-President of the Federal Executive Council, by Yakubu Gowon's military administration. This took place in the unsettled circumstances immediately preceding the Civil War.

LEGACY
Awolowo is remembered for his remarkable integrity, ardent nationalism, principled and virile opposition and dogged federalistic convictions. His party was the first to move the motion for Nigeria's independence in the federal parliament and he obtained internal self-government for the Western Region in 1957. He is credited with coining the name 'naira' for the Nigerian standard monetary unit and helped to finance the Civil War and preserve the federation without borrowing. He built the Liberty Stadium in Ibadan, the first of its kind in Africa; established the WNTV, the first television station in Africa; erected the first skyscraper in tropical Africa: the Cocoa House (still the tallest in Ibadan) and ran a widely-respected civil service in the Western Region. Awolowo was reputedly admired by Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah, and some of his disciples in the South-West have continued to invokehis name and the policies of his party, the Action Group, during campaigns, while his welfarist policies have influenced politicians in most of the other geopolitical zones of the nation.He was a Senior Advocate of Nigeria and Chancellor of the University of Ife (his brainchild) and Ahmadu Bello University. He held many chieftaincy titles, including the Losi of Ikenne, Lisa of Ijeun, Asiwaju of Remo, Odofin of Owo, Ajagunla of Ado-Ekiti, Apesin of Osogbo, Odole of Ife and Obong Ikpa Isong of Ibibioland and was also conferred with the highest national honour of Grand Commander of the Federal Republic. Many institutions in Nigeria honoured him and some regional and national institutions are named after him, including Obafemi Awolowo University in Ile-Ife, Osun State (formerly University of Ife) Obafemi Awolowo Stadium (formerly the Liberty Stadium)and the Obafemi Awolowo Institute of Government and Public Policy in Lekki, Lagos State. His portrait is on the 100naira note. He was also the author of several publications on the political structure and future prospects of Nigeria, the most prominent of which are Path to Nigerian Freedom, Thoughts on the Nigerian Constitution, and Strategies and Tactics of the People's Republic of Nigeria.However, his most important bequests (styled Awoism) are his exemplary integrity, his welfarism, his contributions to hastening the process of decolonization and his consistent and reasoned advocacy of federalism-based on ethno-linguistic self-determination and uniting politically strong states-as the best basis for Nigerian unity. Awolowo died peacefully at his Ikenne home, the Efunyela Hall (so named after his mother), on May 9, 1987, at 78, amid tributes across political and ethno-religious divides.


Wednesday 21 August 2013

HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF IKENNE REMO

IKENNE REMO is a local government area in Ogun state, Nigeria. Its headquarters is in the town of Ikenne at 6°52'N 3°43'E. Ikenne is a town after Sagamu and before Odogbolu and near Ilisan-Remo. It has an area of 144km2 and a population of 118,735 at the 2006 census. The Postal code of the area is 121. Ikenne Local Government as a whole is a semi-urban, comprising of five major towns namely Iperu, Ilisan, Ogere, Irolu and Ikenne, the headquarters. Ikenne Local Government Area is endowed with good Weather, typical of rainforest. The climate and geographical location of the Local Government Area is supportive of the wide range of economic activities such as agriculture, industrial and commercial activities and also one of the Thirty-Three Remo Traditional towns and town-lets. There are two communities in Ikenne Remo which are Ikenne and Idotun. The name Ikenne Remo embraces the two communities; however, the two communities are independent of each other. Ikenne is a few kilometers from Sagamu through the old Sagamu-Ijebu Ode road. Its Northern boundary is Odogbolu, the Capital of Odogbolu Local Government. Odogbolu is a few kilometres to Ikenne. Its Eastern boundary is Ayepe. To the West of Ikenne is Ilisan township. The Sagamu-Benin Express Road is the dividing line between Ikenne and Ilisan. Ikenne and Ilisan are almost the same community today if not for a little bush separation especially towards the Northern part. Around the De Labo Hotel of Ilisan and Ikenne there is no borderline as both towns have common boundary with the Sagamu - Benin Express Road. Within the next few years, Ikenne and Ilisan Township will have no serious dividing lines as buildings both right and left of the Sagamu-Benin Express Road would have been all in position.




Remo towns are so much adjacent to one another. They are all within short distances of one another except Emuren which is far away. Ilisan, Idotun and Ikenne are almost connected and strangers can have the belief that the three towns are one but indigenes know their boundaries and they can demarcate the three towns without hitch or hindrance. The surrounding towns are almost equidistant with an average of five kilometers. Ikenne is on a knoll. You descend the knoll while driving out of Ikenne on all sides and you climb the knoll while driving into Ikenne township. The knoll is a good advantage to Ikenne as it has very good drainage system. It cannot be compared with Iperu which is on a table-land and is affected by serious erosion problem. To the North of Ikenne is the Uren stream which serves the town with its drinking water. The Uren stream is very close to the Ikenne township. It is approached from many areas for the collection of their drinking water.




Almost all Remo towns claim their ancestral leanings to the ancient town of Ile Ife. Ikenne is not an exemption among the claimants. It is asserted that the founders of Ikenne came from Ile Ife. Research could not give the name or the names of the leaders that brought Ikenne Township into existence.There are varied assertions about the history of Ikenne as regards the origin, migration, partial settlement and final settlement. The various assertions should be looked into critically and one can deduce from the varied assertions the one that is suitable to hold if it stands the test of history. The present generations do not know when their ancestors came, settled and started the township developments. It is from the various assertions that we picked what we have as the history of the community. It is asserted that the present Ikenne, Irolu and Emuren took off together from Ile Ife at an unspecified year and time, but probably about 100 B. C. 



SOCIAL AND POLICAL HISTORY OF IKENNE REMO
The social and polical history of Ikenne Remo by Messrs A. Akinsanya and Oyesanya Sofule” (1892 to 1960) has the following on the origin, migration and settlement of Ikenne. I quote:“The people of Ikenne came from Ile Ife. They first settled at Eesu where many houses were built. But because of war and incessant fire out-break, the people had to move away from the site otherwise known as Orule (Ikenne homestead). Ogbodo who was a Babalawo and Obara, a hunter had already settled on the present site of Ikenne. When the people of Ikenne left Orule, they passed the settlement in this place known as Yawa. Their settlement in this place was short-lived due to out-break of a deadly disease that claimed many lives, especially those of children. The people, therefore, decided to move and settle with Ogbodo who had been living happily without problem. They therefore moved from Yawa and settled at the third and present site very near Ogbodo. Ifa oracle was consulted by the people at Ogbodo's hut and it spoke well of the place. Thereafter, the people decided to settle with Ogbodo”.




HISTORY OF SAINT SAVIOUR'S ANGLICAN CHURCH IKENNE REMO
A Comprehensive History of Saint Saviour's Anglican Church Ikenne Remo by Chief John Olubanjo Soriyan has this on record. I quote.
(“When the Ikenne, Irolu and Emuren groups of immigrants reached the area later known as Irolu, they could not find the ingredients for existence and development to satisfy the three group as a whole at the place. Ikenne and Emuren groups moved out but the Irolu group stopped there to await the rest families before proceeding to meet their kith and kin, the Ikenne and Emuren immigrants. They pleaded among themselves, “E je k'a ro ara eni lu nibe k'a ra la bo won” meaning,’Let us collect ourselves together here before going to meet them”. When those expected eventually came, those waiting had temporarily settled down. They pleaded with the new arrivals to join them to settle down permanently there in the following words, “E je k'a juku ro lu si be” meaning” Let us just settle here together”. It was from the adverbial phrase “Ro lu”, (settle together) the town’s name was coined out.”)


The first and second assertion corroborated, Irolu, Ikenne and Emuren migrating together. The historical inaccuracies in the first and second assertion are that neither Irolu nor Emuren admitted migrating together with Ikenne. The leadership and routes of migration of Emuren were kilometres apart from that of Ikenne. There was no link in any form.
It is asserted that Ikenne took off from the ancient town of Ile Ife like many other Yoruba towns. In some cases, the leaders of the immigrants are mentioned when they are not out of their memories. The routes and stop overs are mentioned if they can be remembered. In the case of Ikenne, the leadership or the originators of their migration are not mentioned and there is the need to know them.


The Patriarchs must not be left out or forgotten. The Patriarchs, the time of movement from Ile Ife, the routes, the partial settlements are all left out until they got to the place now known as Irolu. More research work will unfold the missing points in the future.

The three communities, Irolu, Ikenne and Emuren according to the assertion were together up to the present site of Irolu. At the present site of Irolu, there was separation; Ikenne and Emuren continued together their migration exercise. The two communities, Ikenne and Emuren got to a place called ORITA -'DO. Orita-Do is very close to the present site of the Mayflower School, Ikenne. Orita-Do is also not far from the Uren stream. The Ikenne people settled down. The name of the place where they settled was called Eesu. The Ikenne community settled down between Orita-Do and the Uren stream permanently for the first time as determined by their history and the place was called Eesu. The people abandoned Eesu their first permanent place of abode because of pestilential problems which claimed several lives of their people.
This plague caused the loss of several lives among the two communities, for fear of total annihilation the Ikenne group packed their belongings and crossed the Uren river to the present site of Ikenne. Here they came across a large extensive land overgrown with tall grasses called “Iken”. They settled down and abandoned Eesu. They named the new settlement Yawa. The Eesu settlement is now a farmland.

The Emuren group seeing the attitude of their people of Ikenne also moved out of Eesu. They did not follow the Ikenne people but wandered into the unknown until they came to the present Emuren site and settled down. This is at variance with Emuren history.

The Ikenne people were comfortable at their new settlement called Yawa. The long grass “Iken” was very good for feeding their goats and sheep. The land was good for arable cultivation. Not quite long, the plague that drove them out of Eesu surfaced again claiming the lives of the people.

The epidemic forced them to look for another alternative site. Hence, they sited a place which had been occupied by an Ifa priest in the name of Ogbodo, and his people. Ogbodo consulted his Ifa digits, he interpreted the Odu Ifa which is Eturupon Balufon. There was good omen, hence, the Ikenne community moved out of Yawa to co-exist with Ogbodo and his people. The Ikenne people and the aboriginal inhabitants fused together as a single community in the traditional name “IKENNE”. Another historical assertion says that Ogbodo and Obara were members of the Ikenne group from Ile Ife, however, may be there was settlement separation after arriving at Eesu.

The Ikenne community did not take a name until they settled down at the present site of Ikenne. The name Ikenne was derived from the word “Iken” meaning “We have plenty of Iken” In all indications, all Remo towns and town-lets did not take off from Ile Ife with a name. Their names were derived from prevailing situations and circumstances where they settle in Remoland.

In Remo central towns, there are eight towns. Only Ogere starts its name with the letter “O”, all the other towns take off with letter “I”. Explanation was sought for these names but unfortunately nobody was competent enough to explain why these towns, Idena, Idarika, Iperu, Ilisan, Irolu, Idotun and Ikenne take off with the letter “I”.

There are certain peculiarities among all the individual Remo towns. Unfortunately today, there are no elders or historians to explain all the peculiarities and show how and why they are like that to the current generation. Perhaps it was because they all hailed from the same quarter in Ile - Ife.
There is the usual discussion that there are two communities in Ikenne, Ikenne and Idotun. It must be highlighted that there is another community in Ikenne that people do not recognise or know. This is a part of Oko community of Sagamu. When Oko community was moving to Sagamu, only two third of the community left for Sagamu. The remaining third moved to Ikenne and co-exist with them. This is known to only very few people. The Oko people in Ikenne do not show themselves as a community. They acted in line with Ilara, Egudu, Iworu of Ilisan. Oko exists in Ikenne but as they do not pronounce themselves as a community, it is not my duty to publicise the Oko people there. The only historical fact is that there are people that are of Oko descendants in Ikenne. One of the ruling houses of Oko in Sagamu is from the part of the Oko community of Ikenne. The current Aminisan of Oko is from the Ikenne Oko group. The issue of selecting an Oba for Oko community of Sagamu is not surprising. Batoro of Sagamu has a ruling house in Ikorodu and whenever it is their turn to be on the throne, the Oba - elect moves to Sagamu for his royal appointment.

Ikenne and Idotun co-exist together. If you were anywhere outside Ikenne, you talk about Ikenne not minding that there are two communities there. There is nothing extra-ordinary in this since Sagamu with its thirteen traditional communities is regarded as one community outside and inside the township except on special cases. Many traditional and communal activities are done together in Ikenne. There is the Ikenne Development Association (I.D.A) an umbilical cord which binds every member of the Ikenne community together. The human resources in Ikenne are equally regarded as one. The whole community is administered together in a unit form. This gives a rapid extension and expansion of the community.

The Ikenne people are skilled crafts men. This is because the land use in Ikenne is very small. They do not have large span of land like some other Remo towns. In actual fact Ikenne is not the only town in Remo that do not have large span of land, Iperu, Idena, Idarika, Ode Remo, Iraye, Eposo, Ogunmogbo, Are and Ilisan are in the same boat. Many of the Ikenne people of old were skilled craftsmen. The small resources of land available to them was well utilized. They were known very well for cocoyams and groundnuts.


ECONOMIC, EDUCATIONAL, PERSONALITY  AND EVENT IN IKENNE REMO
The Ikenne Local Government host many industrial / commercial establishments which include Ona’s pure water company, Ona’s foam and mattress, Babakawo computer and internet services, channel one beer parlor, A to Z beer parlor, Sky Entertainment, Twins Berger, Dee Brother and Ariya to name a few, while agriculture and allied activities also contribute the most important economy activities of the people living in Ikenne Remo some of the government and private company that are into agric business are as follows IART, Agro service, IITA, master meat, Amco farm and Kola agroproduct etc there service include planting of food crop like maize, cassava, melon and cash crop like kolanut, oil palm trees, rubber, timber and also selling of fertilizers, manual and chemical for killing weeds on the farms . Different type of livestock are also reared this include cow, goat, chicken, turkey, snail, pig etc. Ikenne is also knows for its educational values starting from primary to tertiary level. This school includes O and A primary and secondary school, Mayflower primary school, Mayflower Junior and senior school, community junior and secondary school, Ogun state model school, Olabisi Onabanjo School of health science ,Classic Computer school, Babakawo Computer Engineering and Internet Service Limited, Faith More Computer School etc. Also Ikenne is known to be the origin of some powerful and highly place personality in the country. This person include Late Chief Jeremiah Obafemi Awolowo, Kehinde Sofola (Senior Advocate of Nigeria), H.I.D Awolowo, Doctor Adewale Ayuba (musician) etc to name a few. Ikenne has Ikenne Development Association committees and youth president who is Tomiwa and the pass one is Morris, The Team take active work towards the development of the youth and the community in general. Ikenne is known to celebrate the annual EREKE fiesta which comes up with a lot of activity such like dancing completion, marathon race, beauty pageant and so much more.