Oyo State

==Education==
Presently the State has 2,004 [[Public school (government funded)|public schools]], 971 private nursery/primary schools, 969 public secondary schools including 7 schools of Science and 57 private secondary schools. Also in the State, there are five government technical colleges at [[Oyo, Nigeria|Oyo]], [[Ogbomoso]], Ibadan, Shaki-Okeogun and Iseyin-Okeogun with enrolment of 2,829 students in the 2000/2001 academic session. The National Youth Service Corp (NYSC) permanent orientation camp is located in Iseyin.<ref>{{Citation|title=Chapter 4. Public Schools, High Schools, Normal Schools, and Colleges|date=2012-12-31|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9781400843176.41|work=Stand and Prosper|pages=41–56|publisher=Princeton University Press|doi=10.1515/9781400843176.41|isbn=978-1-4008-4317-6|access-date=2021-06-03}}</ref>

There is Ebedi Writers' Residency situated at the hill-side of Barracks area of Iseyin . This International Residency has brought great writers, journalists and authors all over the world including Africa's first Nobel Laurel, Prof. Wole Soyinka, Jumoke Verissiomo, Funmi Aluko, Richard Ali, Paul Liam and others.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Nigeria |first=Guardian |date=2016-03-12 |title=Ebedi Writers Residency Honours Achebe, Gimba, Mabel Segun, Soyinka |url=https://editor.guardian.ng/art/ebedi-writers-residency-honours-achebe-gimba-mabel-segun-soyinka/ |access-date=2023-06-12 |website=The Guardian Nigeria News - Nigeria and World News |language=en-US}}</ref>

Historically prominent secondary schools include [[St Anne's School Ibadan]] (1869), [[Wesley College, Ibadan]] (1905), [[Ibadan Grammar School]] (1913), [[Government College, Ibadan|Government College Ibadan]] (1927), St Theresa's College Ibadan (1932), Ibadan Boys' High School (1938), [[Olivet Baptist High School|Olivet Heights Oyo]] (1945), [[Queen's School, Ibadan|Queen's School Ibadan]] (1952), [[Loyola College, Ibadan|Loyola College Ibadan]] (1954), St. Bernadine's Oyo (1957),  Lagelu Grammar School Ibadan (1958), Iseyin District Grammar School Iseyin (1964), Methodist High School, Ibadan (1961) St Patrick's Grammar School Ibadan (1962) and several others. It is also home to Africa's leading fountain of knowledge, the iconic University of Ibadan (The university was originally instituted as an independent external college of the University of London, then it was called the University College, Ibadan<ref>[[University of Ibadan]]</ref>).

Two new technical colleges located at Iseyin, Iseyin Local Government area and Ikija in Oluyole Local Government area were established in the 2001/2002 academic session. A college of education, Oyo State College of Education, Oyo. There is a Polytechnic, [[The Polytechnic, Ibadan]], with 2 satellite campuses at [[Eruwa]] and Shaki-Okeogun, (now known as The Oke-Ogun Polytechnic) and a State-owned University, The [[Ladoke Akintola University of Technology]] (LAUTECH), Ogbomoso, which is jointly owned by Oyo and [[Osun State]] Governments. The federal premier university The [[University of Ibadan]], is also located in State capital. A private Polytechnic (SAF Polytechnic, Iseyin) is located in Iseyin. There is a vocational Institute in Saki West Local Government named: The Kings Poly, Shaki-Okeogun.{{citation needed|date=December 2022}}

There are also the [[Federal College of Animal Health and Production Technology, Vom|Federal College of Animal Health and Production Technology, Ibadan]]; [[Federal College of Education (Special), Oyo]], the Federal School of Surveying, Oyo; [[Cocoa Research Institute of Nigeria]] (CRIN), Institute of Agricultural Research and Training (IAR&T), the Nigerian Institute of Science Laboratory Technology (NISLT), the Federal College of Forestry, Ibadan (FEDCOFOR) a subsidiary of [[Forestry Research Institute of Nigeria]] (FRIN) and the [[Nigerian Institute Of Social And Economic Research]] (NISER), all in Ibadan.{{citation needed|date=December 2022}}

Similarly, there are 15 Nomadic schools in the State. They are Gaa Jooro and Gaa Baale, both in Kisi (Irepo Local Government); Baochilu Government; Arin-Oye, Abiogun, Okaka and Baba-Ode (Itesiwaju Local Government); Iganna (Iwajowa Local Government); Igangan and Ayete (Ibarapa North Local Government); Gaa Kondo and Igbo-Ora, (Ibarapa Central Local Government) and Sepeteri (Saki East Local Government). There are 213 [[continuing education]] centres spread all over the State.{{Citation needed|date=June 2021}}<ref>{{Cite web|title=Resources book in education|date = November 1992|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6rCQL0KukPgC&dq=There+are+213+continuing+education+centres+spread+all+over+the+State.&pg=PA46}}</ref>

15 special primary schools and 8 special units in secondary schools cater for handicapped children. There are 11,732 teaching staff in the state public secondary schools and 2,789 non-teaching staff.{{Citation needed|date=May 2020}}

The Agency for Adult and Non-formal Education (AANFE) caters for illiterate adults who had no opportunity of formal education. The agency has 455 classes in existence in the 33 Local Government areas of the State, while 200,000 illiterate adults and over 80,000 post-illiterate adults have been trained recently.{{Citation needed|date=May 2020}}<ref>{{Cite web|title=Aanfe Oyo state|url=https://aanfe.oyostate.gov.ng/objectives-functions/}}</ref>