The Ogun Onire Grove at Ire-Ekiti, in Oye LGA, is No.
- Type
- Sacred site
- Located in
- Oye
The Ogun Onire Grove at Ire-Ekiti, in Oye LGA, is No. 95 on the National Commission for Museums and Monuments' list of proposed national monuments, in the 'Wild Life/Forest Reserve' category. Ire-Ekiti is held in Yoruba tradition to be the place where Ogun, the Yoruba deity of war, disappeared into the earth (The Sun, 2019), and the Onire of Ire has asked governments to develop 'the place where the Ogun entered the earth' as a site for visitors (The Sun, 2025). The grove is the setting of the town's annual Ogun Onire festival.
- Ogun Onire Grove
- Proposed National Monuments — National Commission for Museums and Monuments (NCMM) · link
- Ekiti agog as community celebrates Ogun Onire festival — The Sun (Nigeria), 2025-08-04 · link
- Ogun Onire — The Sun (Nigeria), 2019-10-24 · link
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Archive ID: PLACE-OGUN-ONIRE-GROVE-IRE-EKITI · Last updated 7 October 2026.
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