Do you believe there's a place in Oyo that's over 4hrs even from Ibadan? .
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You don't. Okay.
I went to Saki in Oyo for the first time recently, people who knew the place told me to leave Lagos early, I wondered why and told them I've heard.
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If I leave around 10, I should get there by 4pm at most, I said to myself. On that day, I left Lagos past 10, my driver chose to go through Sango and when we got to Ota, we realized an accident happened there a day before. 'I knew I have entered it',

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we were in traffic for hours and we could have escaped if our driver didn't leave us in the cab to go and control traffic in front. Anyway, we FOUND him over 30mins, a fellow passenger insulted him in Yoruba and Hausa, at a point I couldn't help but sorry for him.
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Coupled with that, the car got spoilt, luckily for us it happened at an army's checkpoint, one of them helped us in repairing it. We received insults from them that day, they said we were risking our lives with someone that doesn't care. We ended up being friends with them though

Lorokan (in summary), I got to Oje-Owode beside Saki by 7pm. Unluckily for me, my coming coincided with the husband to be family's arrival, so I started greeting, you know Yoruba people now, I bent my knees after all the stress I went through...
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The town is beautiful, the towns nearby have beautiful hills, and I was scared of being kidnapped or something since I got there late, but they are helpful & accommodating. Also, I found out something shocking, the town shares border with Benin.
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I found that really intriguing because I had no idea Oyo shares border with another country, but I needed explanations for the customs and immigration services officers I saw on the roads. I had also always wondered if the people of Dahomey used to come through Badagry to pay...

homage or fight in Oyo, as in, why come that far, but I know better now.
There are mainly Muslims in the town, its a place to relax as it is really quiet & there are no mosquitoes, I was shown a plant that keeps them away so I could stay anywhere without the fear of them.