also called Ikere, or Ikerre 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 , rice, corn , palm oil and kernels, okra, pumpkins) for the Ekiti branch of the Yoruba people. Ikere-Ekiti has government and Christian teacher-training colleges; there is also a hospital. The town is headquarters of the Ekiti South Local Government Council. Pop. (1983 est.) 176,800.
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Meaning of IKERE-EKITI in English
Britannica English vocabulary. Английский словарь Британика. 2012