Abeokuta

[ ah-bey-oh-koo-tah ]

noun

1. a city in SW Nigeria.

Abeokuta

/ ˌæbɪəʊˈkuːtə /

noun

1. a town in W Nigeria, capital of Ogun state. Pop: 487 000 (2005 est)

Example Sentences

The victim, a 35-year-old man, worked at the Presidential Library Wildlife Park, owned by former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo, in Abeokuta, capital of Ogun state.

From BBC

She chose to lay it out on a highway connecting the cities of Lagos and Abeokuta on 7 July.

From BBC

On the other side of the lagoon is a new national rail line connecting Lagos with the city of Ibadan via a stop in Abeokuta, and a landmark bridge now leads to the upmarket Lekki Peninsula where upwardly mobile young Nigerians in the tech sector live in swanky apartments.

From BBC

What started as an assignment in college in 2017, has become a full time job for Komboye, whose studio in the city of Abeokuta in the southwest state of Ogun now trains aspiring artists who want to follow in his footsteps and create flip-flop portraits.

From Reuters

We see sculptures by near-contemporary Yoruba carvers like Dadaolomo, Akiyode of Abeokuta, and Areo-ogun-yan-na, whom he regarded as inspirations and rivals.

From New York Times