Location of Akure in Nigeria

Akure is a city in the southwestern region of Nigeria, and is the largest city and capital of Ondo State. The city has a population of approximately 387,087. Rock engravings dating back to the Mesolithic period, have been discovered on the outskirts of Akure, as has the oldest Homo Sapiens fossil to have been found in West Africa to thus far, dating back to around 11,000 years ago. Image File history File links Locator_Map_Akure-Nigeria. ... Image File history File links Locator_Map_Akure-Nigeria. ... Ondo State, Nigeria was created on February 3, 1976 from the former Western region. ... The Mesolithic (Greek mesos=middle and lithos=stone or the Middle Stone Age) is the period between the Paleolithic and Neolithic periods. ... Human beings are defined variously in biological, spiritual, and cultural terms, or in combinations thereof. ... West Africa is the region of western Africa that is generally considered to include the countries of Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Côte dIvoire, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Togo. ... (9th millennium BC – 8th millennium BC – 7th millennium BC – other millennia) // Events The south area of Çatalhöyük. ...

Akure people are of the Yoruba ethnic group. The city has a university, the Federal University of Technology Akure. It also has local television and radio stations, NTA Akure, Ondo state television, Sunshine Radio Akure, and FM Akure. The Yorùbá are estimated to be the second largest ethnic group in Nigeria, after the combined Hausa and Fulani. ... The Federal University of Technology Akure (FUTA) was founded in 1981 under a drive by the then military government of Nigeria to create universities that specialised in producing graduates with practical as well as theoretical knowledge of the latest technologies in common use around the world. ...

In the commercial sector, Akure is the trade center for a farming region. Yams, cassava, corn, and tobacco are grown. Cotton is grown and used to weave cloth.

The state specialist hospital in Akure is equipped with well trainned medical personnel to cater for health problems. To suppliment the efforts of the state specialist hospital in meeting the medical needs of the populace, There are other government health centres and several private clinics.

For sporting events, Akure has a stadium with a capacity of 15,000 spectators and a second-division professional league team, the Sunshine Football Club.