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| | Akure -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
 | | town, Ondo State, southwestern Nigeria, on the road from Akure to Ado-Ekiti. |
 | | A major collecting point for cocoa, it also serves as an agricultural trade centre (yams, cassava [yuca], rice, corn [maize], palm oil and kernels, okra, pumpkins) for the Ekiti branch of the Yoruba people. |
 | | town, Ondo state, southwestern Nigeria, at the southern edge of the Yoruba Hills (elevation 1,130 feet [344 m]) and at the intersection of roads from Akure, Kabba, Benin City, and Siluko. |
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