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CHORUS:
E baje ka korapo, ka fimo sokan
Ka fimo sokan, ka fimon sokan ooo
E baje ka korapo, ka fimo sokan.
1.
ILOBU asake ilu ola, ILOBU asake ilu ogo,
Ogun o jaja ko kowa ri,
Bogun fee gbawaju, ogun ate
Bogun fee gbeyin wa ko rona lo
Sebi ibu ojutu lo nko won lo
2.
Ikan parapo won mole
Eera parapo won lana o
Alapandede njola okan
Ko sohun tole daraju, afi ka fimo sokan
3.
Oro oselu ko diwa lowo
Oro esin ko di owo awa
Itesiwaju ilu dowo wa
Ibikibi ti a wa, e je a fimo sokan.

Originally composed by:
Mr. Abdul Gafar A. Afolabi
and submitted by:
Afees Adeyemi Adisa
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14 sculptural pieces -

Alege carvings & Ibeji carvings from Oyalakun Shrine at Oyalakun’s compound, Ilobu
are now in the Series IV Archive of William B. Fagg
and all were Photographed 1958

Madam RABIAT ADERONKE ALABI

Late Madam
Rabiat Aderonke Alabi
Late Madam
Rabiat Aderonke Alabi
HOTELS & ACCOMMODATIONS

There are standardised hotels and rest houses. The new Ilobu Royal Palace Hotel is a modern hotel and currently one of the best hotels in the whole of Osun State. If you travel to Ilobu, you will enjoy yourself in the ultra modern hotel with satellite TV, modern resturant and Bar, fully Air conditioned rooms including Royal suites.

The town also has numerous small bars and many social clubs are springing up, the notable ones being the Ilobu Social Club, Ilobu Elite Club, Club 12, Zenith Club, Pace-setter Club and Farmers Club. There are also number of modern shops.

ASSOCIATIONS AND CLUBS IN ILOBU
Ilobu Descendants Union (IDU)
The Elite Club
Ilobu Social Club
The New Moon Club '82
Ilobu National Students' Union
The Pacesetters' Club
The Luminaries Club
The Zenith Club
Excel Club '94
The Paramount Club of Ilobu
Impeccable Club of Ilobu

Please click HERE to read more about ASSOCIATIONS & CLUBS
We also love football in Ilobu like any other Nigerian. Ilobu Vipers football club is a strong football club in Osun State.

MARKET DAYS
There are two markets, Olobu and Adio markets, which are held at five days intervals although there is also a daily night market in the town.

Olobu Market
Situated along Ilobu-Ifon Osun road, it is one of the oldest markets in Yorubaland and it comes up every 3 day.  It is the best place to buy and sell stable and cash crops, jewelries, plantains, citrus fruit, yams, cassava, sorghum, beans, okra, peppers, and gourds. Cash crops such as cocoa, cotton, tobacco, palm oil, and palm kernels are collected and sold at Ilobu. Livestock, including dwarf cattle, goats, sheep, chickens, ducks, and guinea fowl, are also an important part of the town's economy. Weaving and dyeing are the prominent traditional crafts. Ilobu is connected by road to Ogbomosho and Oshogbo. Population (1995) 194,400.. The market attracts a lot of people from within and outside Ilobu most especially from around the neighbouring cities, towns and villages. One of the remarkable things about OLOBU market is the largeness of its size and the ability to  and it is normally held from morning to noon.

Adio Market

Situated along Ilobu-Ire-akari-Erin Osun road, it is an everyday market in Ilobu where food stuff and other goods are being sold. The market attracts a lot of people from within and outside Ilobu and it is normally held from morning to noon.

Future Development
With the establishment of Irepodun Local Government in 1976, there is every hope that Government will come to the aid of the town and with the new sense of pride and identity which the people now posses, it is hoped that the rate of development of llobu will increase remarkably.

Town Planning
The planning of llobu has assumed a new dimension since the establishment by law of the town planning authority. The Osun State Town Planning Authority has exerted considerable influence on the town.

Places of Interest
Places of interest in llobu are the Erinle shrine and llobu museum situated in the palace itself.

Pulic Utilities
There are tarred roads from llobu to Osogbo, about 9.5 kilometres away, and Ogbomosho 48 kilometres, and the other from llobu to Ede, 24 kilometres. The town is linked by many roads, which are tarred and motorable. It has modern buildings, electricity, pipe-borne water, post office, telephone service, radio and television.

Social Life