Manufactures include cigarettes, matches, and sugar.
Traditional artisans make woven goods, tin products, wood carvings, and pottery.
Ilorin was the capital of a Yoruba kingdom that, with the assistance of the Fulani , successfully rebelled against the Oyo empire in 1817 but soon thereafter was incorporated into the Fulani state of Sokoto . Through warfare against Oyo and Ibadan in the later 19th cent. In 1897 it was conquered by troops of the British-chartered Royal Niger Company led by Sir George Goldie . Listing from Electric Library , a pay service. Copyright 2001 Infonautics Corporation .